This ignores the ordoliberal[0] perspective, which IMHO deserves som attention if we are discussing the German approach to these questions (which I believe diff

This ignores the ordoliberal[0] perspective, which IMHO deserves som attention if we are discussing the German approach to these questions (which I believe differs/diverges from the principled view of these questions from the anglo-american/common-law PoV) From my perspective, the real danger is the collaboration of state power and private capital power, because it inevitably leads to the death of any notion of democracy. Whether that happens in free market/social democratic/neoliberal/ordoliberal societies is irrelevant, when the result is a consolidation of the power of private capital and state mandated power. (We used to call this corruption, but the term feels irrelevant.) I believe a healthy society (under our current paradigms) deeply requires an antagonistic relationship between state power and private capital. (Just to be clear, I believe these are emergent issues, and I absolutely do not claim to possess any complete truth) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism