fake news

Only to burger floppers w/ peanut brains that can't move up the ladder.

jordan peterson in current year lmao gotta watch out for those post-modern neo-marxists

While i agree its difficult to get to a perfectly “free market” i dont think anyone objects to “courts, property rights, or a system of laws to define the playing field” as things that generally obstruct a free market from operating close to intended. Its the other regulations that are, where the fine line is drawn is typically the subject of debate.

The most intriguing prt about capitalism is how it always seems to kill itself. I think it has something to do with special interest having a voice where the free market doesnt.

The special interests are the free market

Once a group gets enough money they can bend the will of the people and those in power to your benefit. That's capitalism working. It's generating profit, profit becomes influence, influence becomes interferrence.

This is why "free market" never existed. Ever.

define then free market? And a system which fosters that idealism?

The term "free market" is an ever shifting one so that failures of capitalism can always be blamed on the government.

A perpetually triggered populace is part of the problem. I've seen republican coal miners unable to overcome their hatred of democrats to support policies that would benefit themselves at the expense of their employer who screws them over at every turn with regards to employee health, safety and medical care.

Huh?
Free market economy is an idealistic term coined by Adam Smith who gave us the idea to begin with. Like all idealistic concepts are stifled due to human spiritual immaturity. As long as greed and obsessive need to dominate others is a thing.
Also throwing idealistic terms which have never been attained and probably never will, then you can blame anything and everyone. A peculiar argument



Dislike for hippy commies is much stronger

This post was edited by addone on Jun 7 2021 03:03pm

Thats kind of the issue I described earlier. Say the coal miners unionize and think they benefit themselves at the expense of “their employers” but also to the public at large. Since special interest such as them have a voice but the free market does not, rhe free market always ends up offing itself when people pursue special interest.

I might add there are quite a few examples of special interest typically hurting themselves by deviating from the free market as well. A classic example of this is what happened to physicians agreeing to the insurance model and government intervention in healthcare in the US as a whole.

Im kind of at a point where i just hope we get enough trumps and other “useless” politicians to stall the inevitable doom of personal liberty until im dead. Theres nothing worse imo than a bernie, obama, etc who fervently believe in things that take away personal economic liberty from the individual/family. I know how this sounds to lots of more liberal folks (selfish etc) but maybe i watched too much milton friedman to know better