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Old 2009-06-04, 05:46   Link #16
SaintessHeart
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by Tri-ring View Post
Capitalism's main objective is to pursue profit which may go against the required need of public service. In these cases capitalism fails because it is interlocked into a self-contradicting position.
I would fix that line as "Capitalism's main objective is to pursue profit at all costs." There are a few of which points as abovementioned where captalism has succeeded with a little tweaking.

Take for example Hyflux and Blackwater/Xe (examples are not chosen for a pun, just coincidence). Both of them sell ideas for huge amounts of money with little loss. Water Treatment can be done by just contracting any company, but Hyflux did it by providing a quality service and investing in water infrastructure assets, which are aplenty since earth is made of 80% water.

Blackwater, on the other hand, provides a proxy fighting unit to conduct deniable operations at a manageable cost (e.g go in, blow up the building, but let the soldiers get back on their own with little help on extraction). The field staff provided may be paid higher, but when they are dead, there is no need to pay them long term so the company saves money on that.

So basically, things like trash collection and water treatment CAN be profitable if run alongside other things. It would be a "form of investment in public relations" so to speak.

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Originally Posted by Vexx View Post
That's a core element of my problem with our existing healthcare system. The customer of the health insurance package is not you, it is only marginally your employer (the one who has to negotiate and buy a package); the customers are the health insurance executives looking for those bonuses and profits for not spending the money they bring in.You are not in their interest except as a cash source. When an employer is negotiating for an employee package, there isn't a customer-vendor relationship... its "we don't know if we want to risk having your company in our system, its going to cost you".

Employers who opt out of insurance for their employees -- end up with uninsured employees who get sicker because they can't get insurance on their own (ever price individual policies??? They're priced to say "f you, we really don't want your business because you're just one person and we only want to deal in large volume"
That is pretty much a behaviour of selfishness and refusal to look in a direction which both parties benefit. Or it could be said to be lazy since selling a single insurance plan could be hectic compared to selling one to a group ; you get more from a group but you do the same amount of work for both.
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