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Is the free market working? Why can't we seem to make progress on income inequality and climate change? What happened to the 15 hour work week Keynes predicted?

Is the free market working? Why can't we seem to make progress on income inequality and climate change? What happened to the 15 hour work week Keynes predicted? If free markets have no "deep or fundamental" problems, and free markets are our modus operandi, why aren't we in living in some kind of Jetsons utopia? Is it really critical thinking to score ideas pass/fail like that? When I think of critical thinking I think of something synthetic - improving ideas, rather than binning them into narrow categories. Deciding that an idea is worthless and doesn't need any further consideration - that would seem to me to be the death of critical thinking.

WalterBright 3y ago
> Is the free market working? Yes. > Why can't we seem to make progress on income inequality Income inequality is a fake problem, invented by Marxists because the poor in America are actually rather well off (note that the poor from other countries are desperate to get in to the US). It's largely driven by envy. > What happened to the 15 hour work week Start a company and work 15 hours a week if you like. > climate change We'd be a lot better off if the leftists would stop blocking the most pragmatic solution - nuclear power. Besides, communists have a very sorry environmental record. > why aren't we in living in some kind of Jetsons utopia? We are. Have you noticed that we have quite a few of the Jetsons' futuristic gadgets? > Deciding that an idea is worthless and doesn't need any further consideration - that would seem to me to be the death of critical thinking. You're welcome to think all you like about how great Marxism is. If you try to implement it here, I'll vote against you.