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Re: The $700M razorblade: extreme capitalism is still extremism

alan jones — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:26:56 -0000

Good heavens, that's dangerous talk Marc! But I agree totally. There's no evidence that Australia's 'four pillars' banking policy has delivered any cost or efficiency savings for Australians. Indeed, I have good friends in snr positions in one of the Big Four who'll cheerfully admit the exact opposite is true.

Plus, a smaller number of banks would mean fewer data feeds that Saasu would need to integrate with ;-)

Re: The $700M razorblade: extreme capitalism is still extremism

alan jones — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:18:29 -0000

They've bought your opinion too! You and Tiger Woods! OMG!

Re: The $700M razorblade: extreme capitalism is still extremism

Steven Noble — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:53:41 -0000

You obviously haven't met my silky smooth chin, thanks to the wonderful Gilette 3000...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: The $700M razorblade: extreme capitalism is still extremism

alan jones — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:15:15 -0000

Dude, I'd guesstimate <10% of global clean-shaven population shaves with a latest-gen razor! Costs more than most earn in a month. Then there's the bearded cultures. $700M to stay infinitesimally less stubbly for another few hours? Doesn't stack up as a rational spend.

Re: The $700M razorblade: extreme capitalism is still extremism

Steven Noble — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:52:22 -0000

$700m probably isn't much to spend on refining a product that many of the 3 billion males on earth either use or will aspire to use as prosperity spreads.

But yes, I agree with you -- extremism is a problem in any ideology. Just think of the Spanish Inquisition, the Cultural Revolution, etc etc.

What we need is pluralism -- multiple centres of power and opinion, all jostling for influence. In this regard, capitalism does have one advantage over its opposite, communism, in that capitalism advocates a continual jostling for power between business owners, even if -- in its extreme form -- capitalism doesn't support jostling bewteen business owners and other centres of power and opinion like government, unions, and green and consumer groups.