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The problem with removing regulation for corps so they can work a “free” “market” is that they will exploit. It’s what they’ve always done. It’s what they will
by flandish 3y ago
The problem with removing regulation for corps so they can work a “free” “market” is that they will exploit. It’s what they’ve always done. It’s what they will always trend toward. See also: kids in auto plans, meat facilities, etc.
The issue is that the labor has no ability to correct the market - in the same fashion. (Ie: labor cannot exploit and downright _murder_ capital owners - like the owners can and have done. There are laws preventing that.)
If humans are not treated with a higher priority than roi or profit, the business is inherently evil. (Hint; they all are.)
If we have laws for some and not for all - that is to say privatization of all corps with no regulation - that is deplorable and will not end well.
A solution, imho, is for all services required for life, health, education, and safety to be public owned and not corporations.
All other services are owned equally by those that operate them, co-op like.
Free markets can still exist like this.
But hey. That’s not really what capitalists claim to want when they say “free market”; that phrase is a dog whistle for “legal exploitation of the labor pool.”