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hyperion2206 · 03-16-08, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

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Originally Posted by SilentOtto

I'm not so naive as to say corporations are bad in themselves. I think they are intrinsically bad when it comes to our money, since a corporation's objective is getting our money. That's the reason for their existence.

In this case, for me, what Ubi have done is lower the price in the USA to a product without much appeal there (German U-Boote) while they kept it up in Europe where it will probably have more success by itself. You can call it supply/demand. In the 21st century, and talking about a product than can be instantly delivered anywhere in the earth in the same conditions, I call it abuse.

That doesn't make it true. Every complany must make a profit to survive. Profits are good, no matter what over 100 years of socialist indoctrination have tried to establish, and profits are to be celebrated as the badge of achievement that a company has produced something that the public sees value in.

The myth that profits are bad, the myth that corporations are bad, the myth that only government can make everything bright and rosy, the myth that you can and should tax those evil corporations, stand exposed as utter foolishness in Europe. Only in the US do we continue to punish our shining achievers with the highest corporate taxes in the world. Fact: it is impossible to tax a business. You can only indirectly tax the customers of that business while you pretend (hilariously) to punish corporate evil. Socialism: the freak dog with three heads, none of which has the sense to squat before it deficates.

Corporations, like government, labor unions, condominium owners' associations are necessary functions that we can only do imperfectly, hoping for more good than evil to be produced. Since they are all made from the same human race, they are all subject to human abuse and misuse. Attacking the institutions because of the evil of the people within is nonsensical. Our alternative is to pick up our clubs, wear animal skins, live in caves and die at age 30. Oh, kiss Silent Hunter goodbye in the process.

As I said before, given the choice of the download for $10 or a boxed DVD without SecuROM for $20, even with the price difference I would have bought the DVD and called it great value, not abuse. Your position fails because you say that are the same product. They are not.

I have to agree that profit aren't bad, but only under one condition: The profit must be shared with the employees. Nowadays the big corporations make zillions of $, the CEOs get millions of wages and the normal worker is being fired.
This is the reason why leftist parties in parts of the world are becoming more and more popular again.
Ok, that's enough off topic for now folks.