• @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I disagree… an entirely free market ends up looking a lot like feudalism. I’m not saying propping up companies that are too big to fail isn’t a problem, I’m saying failing to do so is hardly a panacea.

    • metaStatic
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      11 year ago

      people mistake cronyism for capitalism all the time. the free market can’t be said to have failed if it was never free in the first place. it’s like saying a tree has failed after it’s been cut down and turned into an unstable table.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Cronyism and capitalism are hardly mutually exclusive… the idea of an entirely free market is a non sequitur, as without limitations on the market, individuals within it can take control over it, rendering it non free.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Let me clear this up, speaking as a capitalist. I make oodles of money and then I pay off people and help my cronies, my cronies help me make more money. That is how a free market and capitalism works and it is working great for me. Frankly I’m offended and aghast at the idea that you don’t want it to be that way, what are you suggesting? Some sort of regulations to stop me from paying whoever I want to do whatever I want? You sound like a fucking communist!

      • Deceptichum
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        11 year ago

        There is no such thing as “cronyism” it’s literally just capitalism.

        You’ve realised it’s flaws and try to pass off that problem as something different, it’s not.

        • metaStatic
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          11 year ago

          Cronyism can happen under any system. you just see what it’s done to capitalism and say “See? this is capitalism”

          Anyone who thinks communism has never been tried is making the exact same argument.

          • Deceptichum
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            11 year ago

            You’re really not making the same argument, because even China and the USSR didn’t call themselves communist.