And I bet COSTCO membership-based, warehouse-club model is a bad thing too, since they are able to negotiate prices lower that what the market would naturally set?
Regulation is a requirement in actual capitalist/market thought. Only fairly recently have libertarian's retconned in their 'free market requires no oversight' nonsense.
I agree, we should return to Adam Smith style capitalism/markets, with his strong promotion of regulation against monopolies, corruption, and rent-seeking
> Only fairly recently have libertarian's retconned in their 'free market requires no oversight' nonsense.
You have to realize that there are people who call themselves "libertarians" who are actually plutocrats, just like there are plutocrats who call themselves "progressives", because people wouldn't agree with them if they would plainly state their actual goals. Whereas pretending to be the people who want to take you down serves the dual purposes of stealing the support of their base for your corruption and then undermining the support for the people who actually want to fix it once other people see what you're doing under their banner.
Reminder that up until recently, economic & market concepts included a requirement for strong government oversight. The originators/thought creators of capitalism talked about the need for such. Adam Smith argued relentlessly for regulation against monopolies, corruption, and rent-seeking. Libertarian ideologues retrofitted in the fantasy of self-regulating markets without oversight fairly recently and it is turning out to be a pretty disastrous retrofit. I agree, we must go back to true, pre idealog economic & market concepts, like Adam Smith argued for.
I've been making Socca from chickpea flour and using that for my pizza crusts, in case you need new ways to consume bean protein. Super quick and easy to whip up.
Russia's war and invasion of Ukraine have brought NATO along more Russian border with new voluntary NATO members. And Russia claims it doesn't care about that/it isn't an issue.
You're argument is just a way to work backwards from the outcome Russia wants, not a reality.
Russia has said it is about Russian speakers. Russia has said it is about nazis. Russia will say anything to try to validate their war.
San Francisco was the cheap to live city that allowed poor, non-monetary obsessed youth to move there and live a hippie lifestyle.
Silicon valley was backward cheap farmland that allowed students in the nearby universities to stay in an area with their college friends and start their business ideas instead of moving back home.
Anywhere there is excess energy/synergy the rich move in and try to capture it, sucking it out. You need places where society can grow, where excess energy is allowed to create excitement/progress/try new things.
The United Nations is only providing Sudan refugees around 400 calories per day. When Israel was claimed to be doing war crimes and starving Gaza it was providing over 1000. Should the ICC go after the UN program for Sudan refugees?
Strong disagree. As someone who has dropped down multiple social classes, I had zero ACTUAL idea about what people were going through, nor about ACTUAL solutions to their problems. But I had lots of solutions to hypothetical problems in my head because I was smart and good hearted.
Having been through the result of implemented hypothetical solutions, they suck. They not only suck, but the suck all of the oxygen up, so that real, better solutions can't replace them.
Yep, you have to suffer the various effects of the system to understand it.
Which is why there are actually hardly any people of the lower class that are actually socialist. They know firsthand that the only thing you are doing is replacing a dependency relation with a power imbalance that allows some abuse with another one that actually increases both dependency and actually institutionalizes abuse.
In my opinion, the modern-day socialists are the equivalent of priests who spend all day convincing people to give some of their money because they are going to make a “better community” and help the poor. In practice, anyone who knows the other side of this trade would rather have a solution that doesn't involve them…
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