SOUTH AFRICA: CORPORATIONS VS COMMON PEOPLE: WHO WINS? – PEOPLE ALWAYS LOSE

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I have watched South Africans for decades as I have also sat, especially since the late 1980s, pondering HOW IS THE COMMON PERSON GOING TO SURVIVE? I have watched one financial crises after another in South Africa and EACH TIME, WITHOUT FAIL, I saw BIG CORPORATIONS DESTROY SMALL OR MEDIUM BUSINESS.

People had a lot of money. A medium business could make many millions of Rands and the owners would be multimillionaires. But against the corporations they don’t stand a chance. There are many industries that were dominated by large numbers of small businesses, many of which were White. I’ve watched lots of them being WIPED OUT.

I speak of: 2nd hand car dealers. You would think used cars can at a point defeat EXPENSIVE NEW CARS. WRONG. With some changes in the law+big finance+concentration of wealth EXPENSIVE NEW CARS DEFEAT CHEAP OLDER RELIABLE CARS. It destroys the car repair businesses (almost all of them are owned).

Pharmacies & Gun Shops: Pharmacies in South Africa were virtually all owned. The People came and changed the law 20 years ago. This caused a massive problem and hundreds (perhaps more) pharmacies went bankrupt. The winners: Liberals with their concentration of power and ability to be more efficient due to huge finances bought up much of pharmacy industry. A single corporation owns most of the pharmacy industry in SA.

Gun Shops: The People changed the law and it resulted in 93% of gun shops (99.9% owned) going bankrupt. People pushed back in 2 areas: Hunting and Sports Shooting. That is how People managed to retain some gun ownership. A weakness of the People was crime and that was another loophole where People managed to get a foot in the door – through security and crime fighting. This is why People are not fully disarmed as People hoped for. Corporations have more firepower than the Govt.

jlamprecht