I'm cynical about mass marketing, Old Guy, because it's so soulless and manipulative. It's so without character or individuality, and it's unresponsive to private citizens. I love small scale capitalism where you have a lot of small, individually owned, unique businesses that were created locally. I don't like it when huge nationwide corporations make everything the same everywhere, because it destroys the flowering of human initiative and imagination.

Small businesses hire people too, Old Guy, just as many people as big corporations do, and small businesses are the heart of what once made America great.

No, I think the government owning all the businesses is a terrible idea! Idiotic, in fact. There's nothing wrong with a government licensing businesses, but it should not own them.

In Cuba there were many small unique cafes, run by local people, and the food they cooked was great, and it wasn't exactly the same everywhere like fast food is, and it was 800% better than McDonalds' crap. It looked like small scale capitalism to me, and I loved it. It looked like America about 60 years ago, sort of...when there was your little local diner in a neighborhood owned by a local person serving their own home cooking.

Modern day corporations look a lot like communism under another name to me. They're centralized, they're enormous, they're impersonal, they have a head office in some remote place that you can't talk to, and they answer to no one.

I'm tellin' you, man, you've been sold a bill of goods. You HAVE communism right now, and it's in the hands of the corporate machine. It's just pretending to be "free" enterprise, but it ain't. Just because they make a profit does not necessarily mean that they create freedom for people!

Here's another thing you maybe haven't thought of: the big multinational corporations ARE your government, because they control it through financing the politicans' campaigns and lobbying. They control both political parties. So, like I'm telling you, you've already got communism. It's just masquerading as something else, and it's got you and most other people completely fooled. Centralization of production and political power in the hands of an elite few, producing mass conformity and drab sameness of lifestyle across a nation IS communism, whether or not that elite few are modern business corporations or the central committee of the Communist Party.

They've got you right where they want you. Worker bees and drones. All slaving away in the big corporate/communist beehive. Communism didn't die when the Berlin Wall fell. It was simply relocating its command central to places like Washington, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, etc...and demoting its former bureaucracy in Moscow for gross inefficiency. They didn't do a good enough job of dominating and controlling their people! The corporate marketers can do way better than that. They have much more clever marketing strategies than the Politburo ever came up with, because they appeal to basic human weaknesses: greed, boredom, and laziness.