What do you think are the major pros/cons of each current generation?

[David Horn]

(05-10-2022, 08:45 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(05-10-2022, 01:33 PM)David Horn Wrote: I thought you were a capitalist.  This is more along the lines of my thinking on social policy.  Unfortunately, emulating the Kiwis will require a new and improved SCOTUS.  I good with that.  How about you?

I am a capitalist. All capitalism means is that you demand a market economy rather than a command economy (I know leftists hate the word, but that's exactly what a communist or socialist economy is).

No, that's not true.  A "market economy" assumes dispersed ownership, true, but that's not anything like a command economy.  You have imposed Marxist-Leninism on the term.  Socialism is not a government form.  It's economic.  We even tried it here in the 19th century.  Are familiar with Amana?  The entire enterprise began as a cooperative.  That's socialism in its purest form -- and most rational, I might note.  

Government based models, that have a more-or-less nanny government and a cooperative work arrangement, also exist in the US.  The #1 example: the US Armed Services.

Jason Wrote:It doesn't mean you can't have sensible regulations, or that you have the right to buy political influence the same way you do good or services. There are many successful capitalist countries in the world right now (I'd argue every single successful one is at least moderately capitalistic), so we have a range of different models to explore therein.

Mixed economies are common, but should not be called "capitalist", per se.  Both Finland and Sweden are great examples.  There are private companies and public ones.

Jason Wrote:My main priorities are incentives and checks and balances. A more laissez faire approach is preferred toward those ends, but it doesn't always work out.

Let's be more precise: it never works out.  The less power government exercises, the more that's exercised by the private sector, and it isn't exercised for the benefit of anyone but the owner class.  If there has ever been a better example than the case today, I can't think of one.  Gilded Age 1.0 was close.

Jasom Wrote:As for the Supreme Court of NZ, I don't know enough to have an opinion.

The anti-corruption campaign was primarily in the political sphere.