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??? If anything, conservatives and liberals, due to their devotion for capitalism, are united in fracturing people and communities. That's just the natural end
by Ar-Curunir 7y ago
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If anything, conservatives and liberals, due to their devotion for capitalism, are united in fracturing people and communities. That's just the natural end goal of an economic philosophy that views everything via the lens of corporate profit.
- zozbot234 7y agoCapitalism is an economic system centered around market relations, which has little to do with how "people and communities" organize themselves socially. The two issues just have very little to do with each other.
- jacobush 7y agoAlso, capitalism itself needs to be guided, or it will escape and ruin the rules until it's no longer capitalism, except in name only.
- muzani 7y agoWouldn't guiding a free market be opposed to the concept of a free market?
- mcguire 7y agoAnti-trust laws, for example. Safety and environmental regulations.
- jacobush 7y agoYes. In some sort of ideal world, where corporations would never dream of regulatory capture, abusing a monopoly position, finding ways to keep upstarts out of the way. In the real world, capitalism is an unstable system. The "winner" gets too close to the state and then tries to shape the rules so they fit the incumbent and discourages everyone else. Boeing and the FAA is a recent high profile example.
- Ar-Curunir 7y agoCapitalism relies on the state to enforce private property rights. The free market then naturally influences your government, which in turn naturally influences how people organize their lives. So yes, capitalism influences how people and communities organize themselves.
- icebraining 7y agoThat's a very US-biased view. There's plenty of conservatism skeptical and even hostile to capitalism and free markets. It's a quite common position in the Catholic community, for example.