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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
because the top 1% and the government (none of which are in adult...) are making it harder and harder to succeed in this world. they are threatened by newcomers. don't be fooled, these people do not want you to succeed. they want you to be a worker bee, not a leader.
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While it is true that a lot of 'big business' owners have always had a tendency to try and restrict access to the market, they only started to succeed at doing this once they realized they needed the government.
Contrary to what they want you to believe (of course they're not going to be honest about this) a lot of the laws and regulations officially aimed at protecting the consumer are actually aimed at protecting a few big corporations. (either by transferring liabilities to the public/tax payer or by making all kinds of rules that apply to newcomers, but not to older companies or by making false advertising legal (example: if a product contains less than 0.5% of certain substances, they are allowed to advertise those products as 'containing 0% of that substance') etc.)
The sad part imo is that once people become aware of this, a lot of them start asking for more government intervention, while it is government intervention that is the main problem. 'Big business' owners with bad intentions love government intervention, because they control who writes the laws and how they are implemented. Most people would then of course respond by saying that we need to get all lobbyists and corporate money out of government, but to think that is possible is naive at best. 'Big business', money interests, common criminal gangs, big unions and politicians have always intermingled and scratched each others backs.
A blatant example would be Tammany Hall and William 'Boss' Tweet. Tweet ran a 'Fire company' in New York in the 1800s. A Fire Company was synonymous for a gang back then (think "Gangs of New York"). He got into politics to make more money. After a while he basically ran New York. The only thing that has changed since then is that they have learned to be less obvious about this.