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Capitalism does imply the absence of regulations imposed by a bunch of goons with guns that claim to be "a legit government representing the people". Mixed eco
by jokethrowaway 5y ago
Capitalism does imply the absence of regulations imposed by a bunch of goons with guns that claim to be "a legit government representing the people".
Mixed economies are not capitalism.
You can say you're a bit capitalist - that's an easy one, we have plenty of data to show that positive economic effect for everyone are linked to free markets - but still believe fairy tales about the government being moral and caring about something which is not being re-elected and stealing money from people.
- me_me_mu_mu 5y agoBro I can also pretend government can buzz off, but we need a military to protect our interests. We need some semblance of order so we don't descend into anarchy and chaos. People who exist at polar ends and bring up edge cases without contributing to fixing them to bring us closer to the middle actively make things worse, imo. These are not zero sum games, and people that think they are probably have no skin in the game. Even the people with lots of wealth and resources worry about losing them, and in order to maintain it you need to make concessions when necessary and be pragmatic.