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Orlando Enrique Fiol

In article >, writes:
>It should be about a government working for the people to help the
>people. There is no doubt that business and industry help to create a
>prosperous society that benefits all people, nut just the rich.
>One of the selling points about our capitalist system is that it fosters
>competition to increase efficiency and lowers prices. Then the big
>businesses buy up the competitors.

This assumes that prices can be lowered enough to include the chronically poor
in the market base, when in fact, many poor folks are systematically excluded
from purchasing even the cheapest, lowest-quality products. Competition
therefore doesn't help them.

Orlando Enrique Fiol
Charlotte, North Carolina
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist and Pedagogue
Ph.D. in Music theory
University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018