Quote from: thedarklight on April 25, 2014, 06:17:35 AM

Quote from: anu on March 29, 2014, 07:14:53 PM

Quote from: giantdragon on March 29, 2014, 07:10:28 PM

Quote from: anu on March 29, 2014, 06:11:42 PM

Collectivist ideas may look good, but every time in history they ended like this:

I can change the word "Collectivist" to "Capitalist" and post the same image! Grin

No you can't - Killing fields, Gulag, KZ are not things companies come up with. Companies want to sell. Killing your customers is bad for business.

The only company that ever killed substantial numbers of people on their own accord was AFAIK the East India Company. And that company grew so big and ugly that it turned into a government. But even they killed orders of magnitude fewer people than collectivists like Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao or the Holy Inquisition.

Tell that to tabacco companies, soft drink companies and others.

Tradeoffs everywhere! Just don't kill your customers too fast... Cool