Big fat companies that have lots of money control governments with their power, and big fat companies are ran by big fat greedy people.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 21:05
FIRST AND SECOND OPIUM WAR, DO YOU KNOW IT
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Anonymous2007-01-25 21:11
Free trade between different countries helps prevent war. People tend to avoid things that will ruin their economy.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 21:16
People tend to avoid things that will ruin their economy.
No, people are the wrong unit. Corporations avoid things that ruin their profits, and pursue those that will increase them.
If that means war, so be it.
Honestly, if I were a ruthless businessman, you bet I'd be shoving for physical elimination of competition.
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Anonymous2007-01-25 21:32
Free trade sucks. Protectionism ftw
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Anonymous2007-01-25 22:40
>>5
Except wars occur between political entities, not corporations (yet). Corporations don't want to kill people, they want to exploit them.
>>6
Protectionism might help on a very local level, but on a larger scale, trade offers more options. If your industries can't compete with another, why insist on creating an artificial barrier to make yours able to compete, when you can shuffle resources in that industry elsewhere to something else you're good at?
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Anonymous2007-01-26 0:55
You people have got it all wrong.
If a significant part of the economy involves cross border free trade then countries are less likely to declare war for many reasons. First being the fact that many people interact cross border, make friends, raise families and some of these children join the army and enter the government etc.. Secondly being that war becomes pointless as it would hurt the economy.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 2:53
>>7 Except wars occur between political entities, not corporations (yet).
I don't know. It seems that politicians and businessmen are very much in bed. They scratch each other's backs, so to speak.
And you bet there are powerful industries that benefit from wars, whether directly by providing the weaponry, on indirectly by altering the availability or ownership of resources and markets.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 3:38
Corporations wont be involved in wars because it wastes their profit
oh no? what about the war on high prices? that shit's be raging for fucking ever. have you seen the price of tube socks? i mean holy shit guys, those Mexican teenage girls are dyin' over there!
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Anonymous2007-01-26 9:16
The only time a business benefits from war is when the arms industry is contracted to produce. If a nation is controlled by it's arms industry to the point where it declares war just so it has an excuse to produce weapons, then that nation is pretty fucked to begin with.