Current Events > "The freer the market, the freer the people"

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What exactly constitutes a "free market"?

Is it no bread lines so you can go into a store and casually buy how much of whatever you want? (like any good society)
Is it unregulated capitalism?
Is it the ability to scam whoever and whenever without rancor?
Not requiring a permit?

I'm pretty sure it's allowing bread lines and not requiring a permit or license.

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It is absolutely NOT "unregulated capitalism"
Its whatever gives more freedom to the consumer, which often means regulating business.

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Freer for rich people. It's another piece of BS used to trick poor people into supporting policies that negatively affect then.

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Southernfatman posted...

Freer for rich people. It's another piece of BS used to trick poor people into supporting policies that negatively affect then.

You know capitalism is good for poor people too right? Under capitalism most poor people aren't even that poor.

Libertarian bullshit used to justify unregulated markets and maintain the hierarchy the rich hold over us

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coh posted...

You know capitalism is good for poor people too right? Under capitalism most poor people aren't even that poor.

Ah yes, "trickle down economics"

I can feel the bullshit trickling down already

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MI4 REAL posted...

What exactly constitutes a "free market"?

The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete in markets, and protection of person and property. When governments substitute taxes, government expenditures, and regulations for personal choice, voluntary exchange, and market coordination, they reduce economic freedom.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/EconomicFreedom.html

As a wise man once said: "economic freedom is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for political freedom to exist." It is not a coincidence that the nations with the most political freedom in the world also happen to have market economies.

Gotta step on or over people or you'll be the one getting stepped on and over.

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coh posted...

You know capitalism is good for poor people too right? Under capitalism most poor people aren't even that poor.

Poor people today don't know what really being poor is.

Growing up I got my clothes from the Salvation Army, wore shoes until they literally fell apart, wore clothes until I grew out of them.

Clothes were handed off to your younger brothers and sisters.

Kids were wearing Levi's and Nike's and I was wearing the Rustler and wearing two different shoes with no socks.

For dinner it was from a sack of potatoes, flour and beans.


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There's no such thing as a free market outside of idealistic rhetoric.

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