Eliminating Corruption

If you pay politicians the equivalent to those on the private sector (e.g. consultants) then corruption would not be as rife.

The people who best utilise the means of production, to produce goods and services people are willing to pay for in a competitive free market, should own the means of production.

These are the nouveau riche and the aristocracy, people who attained their position through sheer merit and those who were groomed from infancy for the position. Don't like it? You can go right ahead and compete with them. Those who care more about their little social cliques than green only lose green, it's the sole reason why negros and women have equal rights. For capitalism is awesome, the invisible hand is always right.

>>41
You're clearly an idiot.  Succeeding as a businessman does not make you qualified to run the country.  In fact, most modern businessmen succeed by screwing people, paying the people less than their efforts have earned.

The solution would seem to lie with free market conservatives, but the market has never truly been free.  Corporate welfare has made large concentrations of power and wealth the architects of the modern world, a role that they were never meant to play.

Giant companies have found a way to drown out the voice of the people with their money and their influence.  The will of the people has been diminished, the will of the public has become a slave to advertising and marketing. People have now become consumers, not citizens.

>>42
Qualified?  Compared to what, Laughing Boy?  The street agitator and wire-puller from the Chicago machine we have now?

>>42
So all this technology and industry is due to businessmen screwing people over, not spending decades in stuffy offices performing meticulous painstaking research.

Cool bias bro. Have you ever tried stopping crying over how much more succesful some people are to you and tried succeeding aswell or just enjoying the wealth that trickles down to you?

>>1
I wouldn't bet too much on it, esp not as a sole measure. As we say over here: "Have plenty, want more".