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Originally Posted by Platapus
If you can figure out how to do all that at the same time, I will gladly subscribe to your newsletter.  |
Big "if" right?
But shipping jobs back here, enforcing the standards and regulations viciously, and SOMEHOW finding a reasonable median between free and enforced markets, then such a thing might actually happen. These oil companies pump up prices (no lame pun intended) to ridiculous levels, and claim that the oil is "in short supply" when theyre sitting on massive reserves. But in this "free market", where the prices of oil and subsequently everything else skyrocket over the wages we earn, things get messy. When theres only a couple companies truly in business in the food and oil game, there is no one else to turn to. And that means that they can put their prices as high as they want, and people wont have anyone else to turn to. either we somehow manage to make fair restrictions in place to prevent such gouges or we find a way to protect small businesses to compete with giants.
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