#freemarket — Public Fediverse posts
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How essential capitalism and free market are to research, discovery, innovation can be gauged by time when capitalism and free market were not there. Particularly that antiquity era in Ancient Greece.
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards
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Isn't wholly relying on free market and capitalism as some sort of immutable law of nature flawed?
How would free market system fare if black swan event occurs? How resilient is free market system in addressing any such occurrence? How good is the capitalist system which prioritizes personal profit making in addressing common goal but has no profit in it?
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Capitalism and free market are two different and distinct economic systems. Just saying
Today most capitalists disingenuously substitute free market for capitalism. There can be free market economy without capitalism. Just saying.
#Capitalism #Freemarket #Economy #AI -
Time to challenge anyone who claims to oppose capitalism while still defending the mechanics that create it: competitive market trade, scarcity exploitation, and private gain as the organizing principle of society.
#politics #markets #libertarian #freemarket #economics #intergral -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/116346855124702428
#MikeKonczal 's book about #Freedom for regular people is an excellent argument against the " #freemarket " making most people more free.
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
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Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
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PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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a "good" #example how the #magic #hand of #freemarket of #capitalism will solve all problems: #fertilizer #prices have doubled since the #trumpet and allies decided to invade another country #iran this will drive up #food #prices and when we all starve you can say "thank you free market of #neoliberalism that you killed everyone on this #planet " #hurray
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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#WaPo layoffs looming as #Olympic coverage cancelled , Natalie Korach reported for #Status that "upwards of 100 newsroom layoffs" are "expected to hit the sports, metro and foreign teams hardest"
One unnamed editorial insider relayed to Brian Stelter recently that #JeffBezos kowtowing " revamp of the #Opinion section cost the Post hundreds of thousands of #subscribers and "now it looks like the staff will pay for it."
I also canceled my longstanding #subscription at the beginning of the second #Drumpf administration when grotesquely bleak & shocking #FreeMarket trumpeting editorial shifts were made, and I apparently was not alone, which has clearly put this historic and important but money hemorrhaging #DC #news outlet beholden to #billionaire #Bezos' beck & call into paper's precarious position ...
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos
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A president who has turned against free markets, made immigration a nightmare, bashes his own judicial appointees and the Federalist Society, and now embraces the very foreign policy backed by neocons and hawks, but opposing which got him elected in the first place. Does anyone else feel kind of nostalgic for the first Donald Trump presidency, but 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 kind of?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/15/trump-first-term-nostalgia/
#DonaldTrump #freeMarket #immigration #interventionism #jurisprudence #politicalNostalgia #tariffs #USPolitics
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A quotation from Wendell Berry
It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “Economy and Pleasure,” What Are People For? (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81511/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #business #capitalism #community #compassion #competition #freemarket #honesty #laissezfaire #mutuality #virtue
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The "TRUMP AMIERICA [𝘴𝘪𝘤] AI Act" (or The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act). You can't make this up.
#AI #Amierica #copyright #freeMarket #freeSpeech #internet #legislation #MarshaBlackburn #section230 #socialMedia #technology #USCongress #USSenate #wordSalad
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#NeoLiberalism: "No, the #money does not exist for you or me or a person. Money is for entities that could potentially funnel more money into the economy, even if the ways that these entities use the money are reckless and foolhardy, because the system’s intent on keeping entities alive incentivizes it. We are in an era where the average person is told to work harder, to struggle more, because…it’s #socialism for the #rich & rugged #freemarket #capitalism for the #poor."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/ -
I've never hated #capitalism as described in my #Economics classes or by its proponents. I hate #CronyCapitalism, #monopolies & #monopsonies & their "oli-" kin ( #oligopoly for example). I want actual #FreeMarket capitalism with strong #rules, enforced equally. I want true #AdamSmith capitalism.
Why The Rich Hate Capitalism -... -
Oh, look! Another thrilling #history #lesson on how #socialism and the free market are basically frenemies with benefits. 🤔📚 Let's plow through pages of pseudo-intellectual drivel to discover that, shockingly, the market still exists! 🙄💸
https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/ #freeMarket #politicalEconomy #marketTrends #intellectualDebate #HackerNews #ngated -
But look at the bright side. We can all watch some high quality AI #slop on a CRT screen, as the tech bloodbath unfolds! Ah! The wonders of modern #technology and #freemarket #capitalism! Meanwhile, did that guy finish that post-apocalyptic OS yet? We might need it soon.
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The obvious flaw in this post is that this has nothing to do with a free market. The Open Insulin Project stands ready and eager to provide safe, effective, cheap insulin. What stops them? Not #capitalism. Not the #freemarket. It's the #FDA. It's the government controlling markets, which is not what #capitalists want; it's the doctrine of #socialism.
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@benroyce @raganwald @AnnieBuddy @rozeboosje @CStamp @Pineywoozle
"a truly #freeMarket consists of *heavy* #regulation pointed at abuse"
Complete contradiction in terms.
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@raganwald @AnnieBuddy @rozeboosje @CStamp @Pineywoozle
i like to use a sports analogy with the "free market" lies that end in "therefore, we must get rid of #regulations" conclusion by malicious and stupid #libertarian assholes
a football game with no referees becomes players punching other players, deploying handguns, and driving tanks
a truly #freeMarket consists of *heavy* #regulation pointed at abuse
(then we get to talk about how regulations are corrupted by the malicious 😩)
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Ah, the classic move where #Cloudflare heroically tells Uncle Sam that blocking sites is actually a dastardly act against global trade. 🌐🛑 Because nothing says "free market" like pleading for the freedom to accidentally block Netflix while trying to banish pirate streams. 🎬🤦♂️
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-tells-u-s-govt-that-foreign-site-blocking-efforts-are-digital-trade-barriers/ #FreeMarket #InternetFreedom #GlobalTrade #PirateStreams #HackerNews #ngated -
Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017)) -
Remember, the vanquished always appear before the victor. President Xi did not come to the US; the vanquished appeared before the victor in Beijing. Good job, Donald. Way to Make America Great Again. You lost, and so did we. #trump #Xi #China #USA #MAGA #tradewar #trade #FreeMarket #recession #economy #tariffs https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
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Wenn die Bank schreibt
... bla bla bla Information zu unseren Produkten bla bla bla ...
und darunter hast Du zwei Knöpfe
[Jetzt nicht] [Einverstanden]
weißt Du, wie es um den freien Markt bestellt ist. Du könntest ja die Bank wechseln. Der Unterschied wäre dann das Logo auf dem entsprechenden Popup.
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Once it is realized that business monopoly in America paralyzes the system of free enterprise on which it is grafted, and is as fatal to those who manipulate it as to the people who suffer beneath its impositions, action by the government to eliminate these artificial restraints will be welcomed by industry throughout the nation.
For idle factories and idle workers profit no man.Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing MonopoliesSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #competition #economicinjustice #economicinterests #freeenterprise #freemarket #inefficiency #monopoly #regulation
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Forgetting what #democracy is for & all about
"Poland's post-communist economic record was remarkable.. But te full #socialcosts of tis #economic #transformation hv been underappreciated.. (w) radical #freemarket reforms, #inequality soared.. While #privatisation & #deregulation lifted GDP, te same processes also fractured te body politic.. #Wałęsa helped usher in #Poland's democratic era, but recently conceded: "We did one thing wrong. We forgot abt te #people"" #lessons
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3066520/forgetting-what-democracy-is-for-and-all-about -
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Competition, of course, like all other good things, can be carried to excess. Competition should not extend to fields where it has demonstrably bad social and economic consequences. The exploitation of child labor, the chiseling of workers’ wages, the stretching of workers’ hours, are not necessary, fair or proper methods of competition.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing MonopoliesSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #business #capitalism #cheaplabor #childlabor #competition #economicinjustice #freemarket #laborrights #socialills #laborlaws
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#MichaelParenti: #FreeMarket #Pathology (54 seconds, and worth every bit of your time!)
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Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?
Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.
Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.
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In the end, no, your #closetserver or #VPS is not enough. Your #managedhosting solution is not enough. The world 🌍 runs on #cloud infra and that's not what's bad.
What's bad is how it's been implemented, how it's a threat to #privacy, how it's a threat to #DigitalSovreignty, as well as #wellfare AND #freemarket - at the same time!
So what do you do? Throw the baby out with the bathwater, or do you question the actual hardware infra, as well as the legal industrial precedents set?
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I just cancelled our #WashingtonPost subscription. We struggled in recent months with the whimsy exercised on the editorial staff, but this is such an insult to subscribers. Personal freedoms are the opposite of free markets. In addition, we are not refunded the balance of our payment, which extends through June of this year. BTW, I had closed an account with Amazon in 2010. Bad business model.
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@futurebird this - so much this.
I have to tell people that #thinktanks, #brainrot and advantageous framing is older than the TV, older than the radio.
The parents of #liberals and #conservatives were the #liberalists, who were groomed by the #aristocracy and the #barons.
Words like #freemarket basically translate to markets controlled centrally by a few monopolists in an exploitative #RaceToTheBottom, where one or several entities become #KingOfTheHole.
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@hart
I think that over 100 years is enough time to allow #bigCorp to see the problem and to let #freeMarket forces produce a solution.Its time to some good old fashion #democracy to take over, We need to put some regulation on how the #bigCorps function.
It is clear that the freemarket #billionaires needs some guidance and guardrails.
#democracy is more than how we vote!
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youtube.com/watch?v=pzG6X7FiOF…
THIS is how #communism was SUPPOSED to work. #FreeMarket #socialism can work VERY well. Slovenia was probably the closest to the type of nation #Marx believed would shift to communism once they had mental and physical infrastructure created by capitalism.
They were also SUPPOSED to have workers councils and start out with them until #Lenin got only 1/3rd of the vote with the menchiviks, liberals and SRs winning the other seats, and could have ended up in prison or dead so he ignored the vote and shifted over to a double representative democracy, where people voted for a representative who then went and voted for the real leaders, but it gave them so much power that they began to tell you who you could vote for making it a complete farce.
Because the west refused to trade with anyone they deemed as socialist for around 30 years, even if they weren't actually socialist(see Cuba and the Congo), most nations were forced to adopt a form of Stalinism but even worse with a corrupt dictator under the thumb of #Stalin .
Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba were the only ones who were able to maintain their own version of decentralized local autonomous control that had democratic right over their local government and workplaces at a level we should have as well.
So long as you didn't cross some lines and criticize the federal government you were fine. Its true in Vietnam, Laos and Cuba today, lots of local autonomy and free speech but no free speech about the federal government, or free speech around sensitive subjects like promoting capitalism.
Titoism was basically the closest to the real version of Marx's vision, Slovenia checking all the boxes Marx called for, #Tito was just a dictator that held a bunch of ethnic groups together that hated each other. -
Milton Friedman on Inflation: A Government-Made Disaster - Inflation is not a natural phenomenon but a consequence of government actions. Mil... - https://news.bitcoin.com/milton-friedman-on-inflation-a-government-made-disaster/ #economicinstability #learning-insights #governmentpolicy #economictheory #hyperinflation #miltonfriedman #monetarypolicy #pricecontrols #freemarket #inflation #shortages
