• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What free market? All I have ever known is corporate socialism. Subsidize business with taxpayer dollars. Regulatory capture to prevent competitors from entering the market.

    • Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      You see all these people out here suffering and still say this? Where in the world can I get what you are taking because I'd love to be able to tune out everything that hard.

      • V17@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        It's not that capitalism doesn't have flaws. It's that all the other systems so far have had worse and bigger flaws. Regulated capitalism with welfare is the least bad system by a wide margin.

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          1 year ago

          This guy gets it.

          The governments job should be to act as referee, ensuring fair and orderly markets. Nothing more, nothing less.

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      1 year ago

      It's the best at creating rampant consumerism and waste in the name of fake numbers going up at the cost of human happiness and fulfillment.

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        1 year ago

        Nope, that would be your government interfering in the free market by issuing inflationary fiat currency.

        Inflation drives a spend it or lose it mentality. Crony capitalists love that shit.