Originally posted by: Capitalizt
Unfortunately Craig, your philosophy prevents that fisherman from rising to anything beyond a fisherman. The moment he becomes successful at selling his fish and decides to branch out, forming his own corporation and franchising his fish business, he becomes the enemy of the left. Because his motivation is profit and he is GOOD at making it, most on the left will see him not as someone to be admired and rewarded for his hard work...but as someone to be distrusted, regulated, and controlled.
Wrong again. The left will prevent him from *abusive* practices that deny opportunity to others, but the left is not an enemy of large private companies.
The difference seems to be whether those companies should operate as 'win-win' operations for their owners and society, or should be allowed to 'get away with murder'.
Why don't we have just one, say, oil company? Is it because we 'hate them for becoming a rich company'? No, it's because they'll abuse the power and as a monopoly, consumers will suffer. Perhaps a better example for this forum are the prices of Nvidia graphics cards which have dominated the market for a while at prices for top models over $500 - and how AMD's new cards, offering comparable performance, are priced at $200 and $300 and it's not just 'evolution', Nvidia is slashing their prices on existing models over competition.
The government has an interest on behalf of society in preserving that healthy competition between effectively sized companies. The left isn't trying to get rid of big oil companies - just to challenge some abusive practices, such as the terrible negligence of Exxon that led to the Valdeez spill. In other words, your 'the left hates large companies' is a straw man.
In fact, I'd say that your argument is very weak as you have to make up these personalizations of how liberals sit around saying "they make a lot, so screw em!!!"
The left is *in favor* of people doing very nicely for being productive, and for *increasing* the opportunity for people to be rewarded by freeing some wealth for the rewards from those who have gotten so ultra wealthy that their hoarding of vast wealth has become a drain on the economy and turned the rest of society into their servants, instead of having as much chance for more wealth.
Your side is filled with fallacies about this, predicting doom and gloom when wages rise, when the minimum wages rise, when the top 2% are taxed more - all disproven.
You are simply driven, it appears from your posts, by ideology rather than by facts and a rational analysis.
No one I know would want the straw man left you describe, and presumably believe, of robotic leeches sucking the state for their needs and voting for their masters.
The sad thing is, you let yourself be manipulated by the propaganda that serves the interests of people quite unlike you.
It's like watching people vote for democrats because the Republicans want to blow up the world with nukes to speed the religious prophecies. Nice myth, but it's BS.