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That is why I mentioned tiktok or huawei: let’s call it the usual pax americana. As for the mirror angle, well, I am not saying it is wrong. Just amused by the
by piskov 1y ago
That is why I mentioned tiktok or huawei: let’s call it the usual pax americana.
As for the mirror angle, well, I am not saying it is wrong. Just amused by the hypocrisy of how easily notions of free market and what have you are thrown out of the window at the first whiff of burning.
- saubeidl 1y agoI think notions of free markets have been a grand failed experiment and I'm glad we're finally starting to move on.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoFree markets have been one for the most successful and positively transforming thing that has ever happened. There is no absolute and regulations are needed, and functioning markets not always exist, but overall the free market is a massive success. Just in the 20th century you can compare how countries that rejected free markets and market economy in general fared compared to those based on a market economy...
- saubeidl 1y agoCompare the trajectory of China to the trajectory of the US in the 21st century.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoChina failed, like others, when it rejected the market economy. It started to boom after it made reforms to embrace it. The free market is thriving in China. The US have done very well economically in the 21th century, too.