> Some of us can change how we think, but big corporations and investment firms (and banks with investment divisions) are not going to adopt our way of thinking.
I wonder: can you overcome this way of thinking?
> People (and governments) realized that once a company grows and consumes or blocks out all its competition, things eventually get very bad for the consumers/public.
Realized to some degree.
> And now we see that there need to be similar regulations to prevent the equivalent in housing.
Some see this, some see other things (sometimes the opposite). Whose visions are correct?
> It will be ironic if the camp that has been promoting gun ownership while simultaneously screwing its supporters becomes subject to forceful demands of its angry former followers.
It would be even more ironic if all followers began to question the stories their leaders tell them, and the stories they tell themselves.
> Perhaps once enough of those armed good old boys finally put their puzzles together and realize they've been fooled on a grand scale, we'll start to see some change.
Surely, to some degree. But even more powerful would be if all people could do this simultaneously...or even a critical mass of people, especially if they managed to do it according to a non-partisan methodology. Perhaps someone will create something like that some day. Or, perhaps not, and we will remain at this local optimum indefinitely, content in the knowledge that it is all someone else's fault.
I wonder: can you overcome this way of thinking?
> People (and governments) realized that once a company grows and consumes or blocks out all its competition, things eventually get very bad for the consumers/public.
Realized to some degree.
> And now we see that there need to be similar regulations to prevent the equivalent in housing.
Some see this, some see other things (sometimes the opposite). Whose visions are correct?
> It will be ironic if the camp that has been promoting gun ownership while simultaneously screwing its supporters becomes subject to forceful demands of its angry former followers.
It would be even more ironic if all followers began to question the stories their leaders tell them, and the stories they tell themselves.
> Perhaps once enough of those armed good old boys finally put their puzzles together and realize they've been fooled on a grand scale, we'll start to see some change.
Surely, to some degree. But even more powerful would be if all people could do this simultaneously...or even a critical mass of people, especially if they managed to do it according to a non-partisan methodology. Perhaps someone will create something like that some day. Or, perhaps not, and we will remain at this local optimum indefinitely, content in the knowledge that it is all someone else's fault.