Google added a billion new web pages to its search engine last month. With each passing day it gets harder and harder for people to advertise on the web; and more and more costly to reach fewer and fewer customers. Ten years from now there will be so many web pages that people will be paying $1.00 per click. Everybody loves the web though; we don’t mind that 30% of the cost of the things we purchase any more goes to pay for the web. What the hell, Bill Gates Himself owns 30% of Microsoft and we don’t mind giving him $30 for every $100 copy of MS Office we purchase – He needs the money. And besides, they have really elaborate, high tech, exciting, innovative ads on TV. Why not ~ there’s no competition. It’s baffling why they have ads at all, unless to give us the illusion there is competition ~ so they can charge even more for their products.
Just how DO you prevent situations like happened with Chrysler? The government bailed them out of bankruptcy, then built them back to profitability by giving them major contracts to build Army personnel carriers, tanks, and other armaments. Then Daimler- Benz purchased Chrysler and not only got access to all our military technology but also took everything that the American government and the American people had invested in the firm and its future.
Now that Germany is no longer an independent nation, but a state in the European Union, this policy should be re-evaluated. Of course, every corporation in the world is doing that to America now, with outsourcing and every manageable variation thereof. It’s too bad corporate citizens can’t be charged with treason because they sure as hell would be guilty – of terrorism too, most likely.