If this was Biden, we’d hear no end of how he has dementia.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    So my point from the start is that it seems inevitable that capitalists would levy their economic power to gain political power. The laissez-faire ideal sounds good (for those with capital, anyway), but without institutional protections against it, those with the most money would be dumb not to levy that money so they can rig the system.

    So we’re quibbling over different thresholds at which government intervention means it’s no longer “Pure Capitalism”, but from my perspective Regulatory Capture is kind of inevitable, without protections against that happening. So that’s why I think it’s just part of Modern Capitalism in most places, and an “Oligarchy with a Capitalist Facade” is just a different life-stage of Capitalism. I’m all in favor of the institutional controls against corporate takeover/influence of governmental bodies. Corporate lobbying is a cancer, because it’s drowning out the public’s voice in politics.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, the state needs to set up rules to specifically prevent corruption of the market.

      You don’t seem to get that the rest of the world views capitalism differently from the US

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        11 year ago

        You’re making a pretty big assumption! I’ve lived most of the last fifteen years in South America, so I actually do have a good hold on how folks in other nations view capitalism, and the USA’s economic and political systems. My job for years was in a biological research institute that was part of the Uruguayan government, and before that for a decade I worked in small towns across the Amazon, in Peru and Colombia.

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            11 year ago

            Ah, so when you said the “rest of the world”, you are excluding Latin America. Where is your high horse located, and what do you think the rest of the world includes?

            • diprount_tomato
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              Outside of those regions

              Also, you didn’t really explain how they didn’t see capitalism as the lack of direct government intervention