Burmese thaw. Japan loans 500 billion to Burma and writes off old debts, as the country continues to - Polidicks

Corporations don't have free will to do what they want though. Corporations need money to survive. If people don't support the corporation with money, the corporation falls; thus, people are still in control and can change the way things are non violently.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;40799695]Corporations don't have free will to do what they want though. Corporations need money to survive. If people don't support the corporation with money, the corporation falls; thus, people are still in control and can change the way things are non violently.[/QUOTE] When is the last time a boycott actually worked?

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;40799735]When is the last time a boycott actually worked?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Transfer_Day[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Public_reaction[/url] Just to name a few. And just because a boycott you agree with doesn't get its way doesn't mean the government needs to step in. Maybe it means that more people are okay with how the corporation is handling things than there are people who are upset about it. Maybe sometimes people boycott for a cause that's actually misguided and misinformed, and that's why there isn't enough people to cause a dent in sales.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;40799796] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Transfer_Day[/url] [/QUOTE] I agree with what you said, although the last example quoted above was less successful than it would've been due to banks locking people inside and calling the cops when they went to transfer.

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;40799148]What's the point of arguing about capitalism vs. communism when no country in the world have ever been truly communist? And how is it related to Burma when Burma haven't been "communist" since 1988?[/QUOTE] Well if no countries ever been Communist, that probably tells me more about the failing of the ideology than anything else. All attempts to implement it have ended in failure, and the signs described that would lead up to it have not materialized.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;40799695]Corporations don't have free will to do what they want though. Corporations need money to survive. If people don't support the corporation with money, the corporation falls; thus, people are still in control and can change the way things are non violently.[/QUOTE] They don't have free will to do whatever they want because of regulations. I'm speaking in a hypothetical context, here, where laissez-faire capitalism was applied to the fullest extent. If your only option was to buy from a corporation and to work for a corporation, you're stuck between corruption and starvation.

[QUOTE=Valiantttt;40799384]China doesnt own that much money. [IMG]http://www.mygovcost.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Revised-FY2011-who-owns-us-national-debt-652x472.png[/IMG] 60% of it is in US hands either through the public or retirement funds.[/QUOTE] So the US owes Japan about 990 billion dollars. That's a fuckload. 25% of Japans GNP and 20% of their GDP.