Amazon Should Stick to Capitalism and Avoid the Crony Game

in politics •  7 years ago 

When people who are pro capitalism speak of capitalism, they are talking about free markets. Some people blame capitalism for problems that are really caused by corporatism, cronyism and statism. I don't know why it isn't obvious to more people that more government power increases corruption of this nature (and all kinds), not decreases it.

Pro-market is a belief in genuine free enterprise, which means companies succeed or fail solely on the basis of whether they produce goods and services that consumers like. Pro-business, by contrast, is a concept that opens the door to inefficient and corrupt cronyism, such as bailouts and subsidies. It basically means that big business and big government get in bed together. And that’s going to mean bad news for taxpayers and consumers.​

Source: Amazon Should Stick to Capitalism and Avoid the Crony Game - Foundation for Economic Education

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Agreed. I was defending them when ppl were blamong them for the fail of some retailers... you know, ppl are free to choose who to buy from and old obaolete methods will ne replaced. But ugh, why must they collude with the gov now? They were doing so well