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In the governments defense, I think big corporations routinely overpay for web development and marketing expenses.

Aanecdotally, a girl I know who works for a pharmaceutical company said they spent $60,000 on a three page web site.

Then I sit in Starbucks and listen to some freelancer get reamed for charging $1,000 to build and manage some guy's website. One would think that the price discrepancies for the same product among different buyers would not be so extreme in a capitalist marketplace.



Neither the government nor large corporations qualify as the kind of free and ideal market you're referring to.


How does the term "capitalist marketplace" infer "free and ideal market?"

The purchase and sale of cocaine occurs in a market where virtually all sellers are capitalists. It is neither free nor ideal.


> In the governments defense, I think big corporations routinely overpay for web development and marketing expenses.

In the big corporations defense, they don't use tax dollars.


Yep - they use excess revenues from us, their customers, and don't even translate that into excess profits for us, their owners.

Instead they use excess costs to reward us, their executives and us, their contractors.

The difference between big business and big government are sometimes difficult for me to see.




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