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Originally posted by wonderwench
I haven 't abandoned the Founding Fathers. I just make a distinction between their personal opinions and what they agreed upon as being the legal foundation of the country.
Indoor plumbing would have remained a luxury of The Rich if industrialization had not made it affordable via mass production.
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I used the Jefferson quote to illustrate the fact that some of our founding Fathers did not support unfettered capitalism, seeing that the concentration of power can lead to a new aristocracy.
Corporations are not the sole sources of innovation in the world. We do need organized business and, perhaps, limited liability, but we must also guard against the possible harms that emerging powers can inflict upon us. Corporations are quickly becoming the most powerful forces on this planet and are, by law, only beholden to the desires of their stock holders. The danger in this situation should be apparent, but this is probably a subject for another thread. God knows we've meandered enough in this one.