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Critics of mostly free market systems generally base their argument on a comparison of wealth levels in such systems. They implicitly assume (or don’t care) th
by lokar 3y ago
Critics of mostly free market systems generally base their argument on a comparison of wealth levels in such systems. They implicitly assume (or don’t care) that in a planned system the total wealth would be the same, just distributed differently. There is little evidence to support this.
- elteto 3y agoCorrect. Moreover, if you shift the goalposts (wealth is no longer/can’t be primarily defined by a balance in a bank account) then society will adapt and create different wealth constructs to make up for it. So, you’ll have the government caste with nicer perks and opportunities, and then everyone else from there on down.
- NemoNobody 3y agoHaha, yeah but it will all different people getting the perks than those with perks now
- elteto 3y agoYes, we know how egalitarian the USSR was, they didn’t discriminate against Jews or Asian minorities at all… /s