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There is nothing laissez-faire about intelligence agencies bankrolling "private" startups that help said intelligence agencies circumvent the fourth amendment,
by anonym29 1y ago
There is nothing laissez-faire about intelligence agencies bankrolling "private" startups that help said intelligence agencies circumvent the fourth amendment, nor about the regulatory capture resulting from revolving door between big business and the big government agencies tasked with regulating those businesses, nor about taxpayers bailing out banks or auto companies that made shitty investments or shitty cars, nor about the protectionism of the Jones Act that results in the US producing some of the world's most overpriced naval vessels at the expense of US consumers, nor about the open practice of corporate bribery of the legislature which the US calls "lobbying".
The US does not practice laissez-faire capitalism; we practice a pernicious state corporatism where losses get socialized, gains are privatized, where the trillion dollar companies pay lower tax rates than the mom and pop shops, where the federal government spends more resources spying on their own citizens than they do spying on Russia or China, where members of Congress are for sale when they're not insider trading, but where you will get abducted by plainclothes DHS agents and get deported (even with a valid, legal residency) if you so much as dare to publicly criticize Israel or have the wrong skin color while standing outside of a Home Depot.
There's nothing "natural" about any of this.