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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is there any system that is more fair and/or gives you more freedom? I havent found any.

On a hypothetically completely free capitalist market, I can sell and buy whatever I wish and the value that I get when selling directly correlates to the value I'm bringing to the buyer. If I generated a lot of value, I have more capital so I can also buy more value using that capital. Sounds fantastic in theory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In an unregulated free market, you could buy milk, drink it and fucking die because it had poison in it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah of course thats why there are regulations in place. Nobldy would trust that milj seller again though, so for cases that are not as bad as a human life being ended, the system would still work...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regulations?? No way. I said free market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats your point then? That a completely free market is bad? Yeah, thats why we dont have one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Of course not! Free markets are great, they allow me to make money however I please. But if you're gonna regulate my business, at least leave me the opportunity to exploit my workers to some extent. I won't be made obsolete by some stoner beatniks who think they can run my business better than I can in some high-falutin' democracy. I own this place. It's mine. I bought it with my own bank account.

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