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So "stagnant wages" was what you called an inaccurate catchphrase? >housing and healthcare, are the defacto most intervened and regulated markets of all. It is
by bbddg 8y ago
So "stagnant wages" was what you called an inaccurate catchphrase?
>housing and healthcare, are the defacto most intervened and regulated markets of all. It is the state, in its magnificent regulatory capture, that its pushing poverty unto people.
I won't defend much of anything about the state of housing or healthcare in the US. The government is certainly a huge part of the problem, I have no issue accepting that.
Here's the thing: I don't think that all government programs are good. Some are designed to push poverty unto people like you said. But the solution isn't to get rid of all regulation or the idea that government can be used as a tool for the masses.
We need to have a government that is much more aligned with the interests of the people than the interests of large corporations and capital. To me the way to do that is to expand the limits of democracy to include how the economy is run, how natural resources are used, and what the relationship between capital and workers should be.
- conanbatt 8y agoExpand the limits of democracy as a way to vote expropiation? When democracy is used to plunder, there is no way back. It will be living for the purpose of robbing others, and the poor have never fared well in such systems. We live in a world with relative freedom but still very constrained. Look at the US spending 25% of its GDP through the state. And european countries reach 40 and even 50%! Half of every thing produced consumed by the state. The State is the enemy. It really is. The most positive effect I can imagine is people being stroung enough to resist the powers of states and pit them against each other. The most scary future I see is the collaboration of countries. Concentration of capital is bad, but concentration of power is the true danger. And the State garners its concentration with the power of might.
- bbddg 8y agoWhat has more concentration of power, monarchies or representational democracies? I'm suggesting that we can create a new form of governing that further decentralizes power.
- conanbatt 8y agoDemocracies are not powerful with a strong central government. If everyone votes something the state cant enforce, it would be pointless.