11-02-2019, 08:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2019, 09:12 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-02-2019, 04:24 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I'm definitely better off than I was in 1979. Than 1999, definitely not.
The free market works fine as long it's actually a competitive free market; that's what liberalism really is. When the big guys grew to multinational oligopolies, and they started making their money from globalist exploitation instead of competing for customers, that's when the problems happened. That's when liberalism turned into neoliberalism.
Contra Eric, it's all the leftist billionaires at tech giants like Google and Facebook that are driving neoliberalism now. The Mercers aren't even globalist, though the Kochs are.
Yes, but I wouldn't call these guys "leftists" anymore, although they might contribute to Democrats.
Yes, neoliberalism is globalist exploitation, but it's also the domestic kind. But libertarian economics (aka neo-liberalism) automatically turns into oligopoly, unless regulated. That's how it goes. The big guys eat up the little guys in short order.
Any idea that freedom depends on the market is neo-liberalism.
Somebody tell Terror-Marie not to eat so much popcorn. It's not good fer ya.