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Good read. America today looks like the crumpling world described by Ayn Rand in `Atlass Shrugged`. Ironically the reason of this downfall is the adoption of na

• mylons 7y ago
  america doesn’t have Laissez-faire capitalism.
  • devpts11 7y ago
    In America, it's amazing if you're rich and a nightmare if you're poor. Decades of trickle-down Reaganomics and hyperindividualism lead to a dog-eat-dog society where nearly everyone is atomized, disconnected and unconcerned with anyone else... it's not so much a civilization as it is an insane asylum of people locked in together who don't want to know anyone else. It's as close to libertarianism without privatizing fire departments, but basically everything else is privatized (including numerous "private-public partnerships") to deleterious fallout (healthcare, prisons, education, military, roads, infrastructure and many more areas that allow perverse incentives and corruption to takeover public resources and commonwealth and monetize them). Lacking enforced legal protections is a disaster from a lack of government... less government isn't always a Good Thing, especially when political appointees are wolves guarding the henhouse.