Quote from: aminorex on March 10, 2014, 01:34:41 PM

Quote from: hlynur on March 10, 2014, 12:18:54 PM

i highly doubt that during the process of transformation towards such a system the whole problem with gobal monopolistic companies backing up their status by influencing politics would simply disappear. Privatization in certain economical sectors like water or electrical power supply has led to very ugly developments at the expense of citizens in a lot of countries around the world.

global monopolistic companies owe their existence to global monopolistic governments. you can't have one without the other. the centralized state is no less causally responsible for the privatized water arrangement operated by a centralized corporation than it is for the socialized water arrangement operated by a central state.

fair point and i must admit that i partly agree with ErisDiscordia's argumentation in his last post.
The only problem i see is the transformation towards such changes.
As these companies have already gained a certain amount of power & money i can't figure out a smooth process there.
I rather expect them manifesting the status quo even further through cartels and nepotism when governments pull back regulation in certain sectors.
this could derange into companies owning complete parts of cities and simply replacing the governmental structures as we have them today. (which would definitively be at the expense of the lower classes because of the purely profit-driven structure)

But as often seen during human history perhaps shit must hit the fan until a real change can occur.
Another problem i see is the mentioned voluntary support for the poorer part of the pyramid.
Watching the dissolving and individualistic orientied society in these days, i always get the feeling the masses are so used to the dog-eat-dog world
that they unlearned what it means to act social and really take part in a community.

Although i have to add there are positive events from time to time that give me hope for a reverse trend and this development could change over the next decades.