Reading Michael Lewis' Boomerang,
it seems a similar thing miraculously happened in Ireland, too.
Surprise.
Next time someone buttonholes you about so called 'property rights',
think again.
Think fraud, theft, and corruption, ala Murdock, not some constitutional nonsense...like property rights or free speech.
Think also of the end of the middle
and upper middle classes,
everywhere in the West
all at once.
One wonders why big corporations favor the anarchism of civil libertarianism, whereas their own operations require a certain level of order only provided by government.
The answer seems to be that they are more or less blind to the dangers of anti big government, or anti any government, positions for their own survival.
This comment by Anonymous on David Kaiser's blog, does not, it seems to me sufficiently explain it:
"Interesting. It's clear to me that uber-rich US elites support these "right=to-kill" laws for a very utilitarian reason: divide and rule. An armed populace with a license to terminate their peers (in fact -- Zimmerman and Martin lived in the same world, and certainly not the Kochs)is less likely to turn its animus against their oppressors."
Although this works as an account of say Stalin'
s
methods against other countries, it fails re MNCs'
motivations, in my judgment.
