• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    You had me until you distilled everything into “capitalism”… Life isn’t black and white.

    Inb4 the intellectually dishonest response of “but I said ‘and friends!’”.

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      6 days ago

      Where would you lay the blame?

      And how is that hypothetical response “intellectually dishonest”?

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
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        2 hours ago

        The regime we have is made up of real capitalists, who behave as capitalists often have throughout history. The kind of capitalism that’s fake is the Chicago-school free maket kind, which has never existed in real life, because it embodies a contradiction in terms. The market is either “free” as in freedom from regulation, or it’s “free” in terms of no oligopolistic barriers to entry. It can’t be both simultaneously. Tuly free markets have a lifetime comparable to free hydrogen atoms: they quickly settle to an equilibrium state that’s less free (by either definition).