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None of these articles comes to grips with the USA abandoning free market solutions. Doesn't this de-legitimize success to some degree? Your product succeeded
by bediger4000 1y ago
None of these articles comes to grips with the USA abandoning free market solutions.
Doesn't this de-legitimize success to some degree? Your product succeeded because one guy liked it, not because everyone liked it. Bill Gates can pull all the newcomer's chains because Windows won on the marketplace on merits, while new products win because some cryptocurrency appeared in a shell company's wallet.
- JohnFen 1y agoI think it depends on what you consider "success". Different people and entities define it differently. I'm guessing that there are lots of people that define it as "being wealthy and powerful", and how they get there means nothing to them.
- MentatOnMelange 1y agoProbably because free market solutions were as much an ideology as it was an economic system. The average joe has been told since Reagan that lower taxes for the wealthiest businesses and people, deregulation and cutting back social programs will trickle down to benefit them. This has turned out to be wrong, and whether it was an intentional lie or a genuine plan that failed, we need to acknowledge it. The fact Trump's main message was tarrifs, and yet his polling numbers go down the more tarrifs are in the news now, should tell you something. People are looking for solutions and when there's a lack of good ideas, they vote for the bad idea over the status quo