> Or leave and work for a competitor. I don't put a gun to anybody's head, unlike various socialist governments. Only socialist governments put guns to people'

> Or leave and work for a competitor. I don't put a gun to anybody's head, unlike various socialist governments. Only socialist governments put guns to people's heads? > Note that I work in North America and so my expectation of an employee being able to 1) leave and work for someone else, or 2) leave and start their own company, stem from this. Yeah, it's not so easy for most of the world's population. Since you seem to be aware this, note that a less obvious element of this fact is that the reason things seem largely not so bad in the US/Europe is due to the large scale extraction of economic value from less developed countries. That power law is now coming around to bite the US/Europe middle class, and Trump/Brexit is the result. > So what do you call it when the government props up certain businesses (that they prefer) by redistributing my tax dollars thereby shielding them from market forces? I can't think of a libertarian government doing this. Cronyism? Corruption? This really has little to do with economics but is a political problem. The same thing happens in capitalist and socialist countries. > And yes, socialism must imply a bigger and more intrusive central management body (aka government) because that's how you "democratize the means of production". You have to enforce such actions with the gun. Yes because of people like you fighting it... grumble grumble There are actually a lot of "libertarian socialist" theories out there. It's like a blend of anarchism and Marxism.