I could ask you exactly the same question. What the hell do you think I’m making use of? My own life experience, you fathead, that’s what. I am sick to death of being told that anybody who has the temerity to disagree with you is blinded by ideology or ignorant of basic facts. YOU are the ideologue here. You are the avowed Socialist, which means you are dedicated to State ownership of the means of production, whether it works or not — as, for the most part, it doesn’t. (If that’s not what you mean by Socialism, I suggest you look up the definition of the word. But your constant sneers against ‘free market ideologues’ suggest that you do mean it — so much the worse for you.)
I repeat: I have owned businesses, and I do not hate competition. I have known many other business owners, not one of whom had any desire to be swallowed up by a monopoly or a cartel. NOT ONE. EVER. I have yet to encounter the least scintilla of evidence to support your assertion that ‘most businessmen hate competition’. It is ridiculous and demonstrably false, and it is a GROSS insult to my intelligence (and that of every small business owner, and I ask you to remember that the overwhelming majority of businesses are small, and EVERY business was small when founded) to claim otherwise.
I am getting thoroughly fed up not only with your lies and insults, but with the smug and supercilious way in which you insist that yours is the only opinion that can possibly be supported by the facts.
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Date: 2008-08-08 04:02 am (UTC)I repeat: I have owned businesses, and I do not hate competition. I have known many other business owners, not one of whom had any desire to be swallowed up by a monopoly or a cartel. NOT ONE. EVER. I have yet to encounter the least scintilla of evidence to support your assertion that ‘most businessmen hate competition’. It is ridiculous and demonstrably false, and it is a GROSS insult to my intelligence (and that of every small business owner, and I ask you to remember that the overwhelming majority of businesses are small, and EVERY business was small when founded) to claim otherwise.
I am getting thoroughly fed up not only with your lies and insults, but with the smug and supercilious way in which you insist that yours is the only opinion that can possibly be supported by the facts.