Cheerful Charlie
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Inequality in America. The rich get richer, the poor get the shaft. Vulture capitalism, crony capitalism in all its glory.
Government always sounds like a religion to me. Government can fix anything, if you just have faith in it. Regulation is just another hand of god to set things right. And every time it fails, the excuses tend to be that the example is not truly regulation, because some deregulation exists somewhere.
No back to actual discourse, instead of banal stupidity (and my mockery of banal stupidity).
So when is it free market and when is it crony capitalism? There's got to be a way to distinguish between the two. If I provide such a distinction, idiots will say I'm talking religion, so I guess it is up to others to try to help distinguish between the two.
Ah, repetition of the banal and stupid libertarian mantra.Government is just another hand of god to set things right. Something wrong? Regulate or raise taxes.
FIFYIf I ever need a banal argument,I can always count on you LD.I'll just make a post.
Government is just another hand of god to set things right. Something wrong? Regulate or raise taxes.
If I ever need a banal argument, I can always count on you LD.
Moreover, libertarians believe in enforceable property rights which require laws or custom. Laws mean government (another hand of god). Laws or custom regulate behavior. So the notion that regulation is necessarily bad is incredibly "naive" or hypocritical on the part of libertarians.Government is just another hand of god to set things right. Something wrong? Regulate or raise taxes.
If I ever need a banal argument, I can always count on you LD.
Governments run the gamat from incompetent (Russia, Afghanistan) to pretty competent (Scandanavian nations) and points inbetween. Thanks to the GOP, ours is getting worse by the year.
The 'Free Market' always sounds like a religion to me. The 'Free Market' can fix anything, if you just have faith in it. The 'invisible hand' is just another hand of god to set things right. And every time it fails, the excuses tend to be that the example is not a truly free market, because some regulation exists somewhere.
Some of the claimed benefits do seem reasonable when you get closer to perfect competition, such as business trying to produce better products to edge out the other. But with laissez faire capitalism the market tends towards the monopoly end of the spectrum instead. The free market delusion also seems to require customers to be near omnipotent in knowing when a business is providing an inferior or even dangerous product.
Smells of old man yells at cloud. But it is the pulse. The libertarian amounts to "you can't tell me what to do!" because they want to smoke pot or drive fast or drive drunk. But then they want to regulate business in a way that is quite antithetical to libertarian or even classic liberal capital philosophy. What it boils to is that they are generally discontent, fearful, and think that The Powers That Be have taken everything from them to give to the undesiring. Strange thing is, many of them decry the billionaire class but don't see the problem with the Trump/McConnell/Ryan tax give away or all of Trumps industry shill cabinet picks. They think AOC is part of the plot to get them.
Government always sounds like a religion to me. Government can fix anything, if you just have faith in it. Regulation is just another hand of god to set things right. And every time it fails, the excuses tend to be that the example is not truly regulation, because some deregulation exists somewhere.
No back to actual discourse, instead of banal stupidity (and my mockery of banal stupidity).
So when is it free market and when is it crony capitalism? There's got to be a way to distinguish between the two. If I provide such a distinction, idiots will say I'm talking religion, so I guess it is up to others to try to help distinguish between the two.
This would be a strawman... also indicative that you can't address the flaws pointed out in capitalism and reliance on the "free market".Government always sounds like a religion to me. Government can fix anything, if you just have faith in it. Regulation is just another hand of god to set things right. And every time it fails, the excuses tend to be that the example is not truly regulation, because some deregulation exists somewhere.