Meanwhile in Sweden
Meanwhile in Sweden
That's $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.
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Your idea to use capitalism to fight capitalism is noted.
Something tells me it's already been tried. Over and over. For around three centuries.
And it has worked reasonably well, on net, for those centuries. As Winston Churchill popularized:
it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
The same can be said for capitalism. Politicians think the answer lies in regulation, but that leads to cronyism, which is to blame for most of the crap we deal with.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "deregulate all the things," I'm saying we need to be arresting and jailing execs instead of fining companies (and increasing fines), busting up monopolies, etc. If that means we need to remove some regulations and whatnot, fine, but dramatically increase the penalties for breaking the law. Government needs to be as separate as possible from the market to be effective, just like a coach can't be a good referee when their team is on the field.
Yes, again, your pro-capitalist views are noted. And they explain a lot.
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If you have a suggestion for a system that is proven to work better and not devolve into authoritarianism (or at least not as quickly), I'm all ears.
I think we're better off fixing the system we have, which to me means:
- more worker unions
- harsher penalties for law-breaking corporations
- trust busting
- less money in politics (and less interference in the market)
Throwing everything out and trying something new more often results in authoritarianism and/or poverty than freedom and prosperity.
Why does it have to have been proven to work better in order to try it? What a regressive way of looking at the world.
Because changing a whole economic/government system has proven to have a very high chance of failure, resulting in people being even worse off. For every success story, there are dozens of failures.
So unless you have a gradualist/reformist approach that either has been proven or is easy to back out of, I'm not interested.
What a regressive way of looking at the world.
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