Ron Watson wrote: > Steve, great post as always.. > > I'll give an explanation. > > We're scary.
Show us evidence (even anecdotal) that Big Business is visionary enough to realize this, or plans long-term enough to take steps to shut down. I think you are presuming that Big Business is a rational, energetic actor, and that you are mistaken. Big Business does not conspire to change contexts, but adapts. > These guys built their empire promising us exactly what we have > today: "Every man a publisher. Every man a Network." > > It was the bone they threw the public and elected officials to get > relaxed regulation, re-regulation in their interests and support for > their projects. It seems quite naïve to hold an industry to the empty promises made by its lobbyists in a system so corrupt. The actual promises delivered concerned strings of zeros deposited in legislators' bank accounts.
