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RE:Capitalism & Communism
by Good_man on Jul 03, 2008 10:09 PM

Ram Sharma has started a significant thread. We have to know this “NO SYSTEM IS IMMUTABLE” In market economy, COMPETITION must benefit the consumer. System however, grows clever by each minute. Take for example the telecom sector. The 'plans' offered by various players are nothing but a determined effort to confuse the customer. Competitors here collectively are able to squeeze hell out of the customer.
Communists, in name of 'proletariatism', penalized the very own people for whose benefit they erected the elaborate system that disallowed any scrutiny.
Today, corporate world hides behind elaborately designed 'customer care' and 'electronic response' systems. There is no way a deceived customer can redress grievances. Deception is in small doses, but on continuous basis. It is in form of shameless undeclared levies and penalties which is many times more than declared almost alluring tariffs. Unlike communist system which took away liberties violently, the new capitalist system has entire populations held by ‘invisible’ leashes.
So if you thought Information Technology will liberate average citizen and bring prosperity to masses, the mighty muscles controlling the 'software' and ‘framework’ development have already decided against such possibility.
What is the remedy? It may only lie in defining TOTALLY NEW SYSTEMS, with determination to serve the interest of all of ~10 billion human beings, while simultaneously preserving

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