#laissezfaire — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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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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A quotation from Wendell Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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/81315/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #economicsystem #economicjustice #competition #humancondition #justice #living #mercy #supplyanddemand #ruthlessness #laissezfaire
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Über den Ursprung der Ideologie #Austerität nach dem 1.WK:
> In Großbritannien wie Italien [gewannen] die Arbeiter*innen daraus die entscheidende Erkenntnis [...]: Während sich der Vorkriegskapitalismus noch als naturgegebener #LaissezFaire-Zustand gerierte, zeigte der staatliche Eingriff in die Produktion die Gestaltbarkeit wirtschaftlicher Verhältnisse auf.
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193310.die-ordnung-des-kapitals-das-maerchen-vom-sparzwang.html
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Laissez Faire leadership tends to delegate mostly all aspects of responsibility to those around them, taking a hands-off approach to decision making. #business #leader #laissezfaire #handsoff
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Ein Demokratischer Weltstaat: Das Einzige, mit dem wir uns heute noch helfen können
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🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated -
🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated -
🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated -
⬆️ >> Fair #progressiveTaxation is what's missing. 4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here. Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
Because assumptions of perfect competition do not hold in real world, govt is not optional. Corrective action is needed to bring fairness.
But in the name of efficiency, we will have #DOGE — Destruction of Government (by) #Elon
via @gilduran https://www.theframelab.org/destruction-of-government-by-elon-doge/
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⬆️ >> Fair #progressiveTaxation is what's missing. 4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here. Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
Because assumptions of perfect competition do not hold in real world, govt is not optional. Corrective action is needed to bring fairness.
But in the name of efficiency, we will have #DOGE — Destruction of Government (by) #Elon
via @gilduran https://www.theframelab.org/destruction-of-government-by-elon-doge/
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⬆️ >> Fair #progressiveTaxation is what's missing. 4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here. Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
Because assumptions of perfect competition do not hold in real world, govt is not optional. Corrective action is needed to bring fairness.
But in the name of efficiency, we will have #DOGE — Destruction of Government (by) #Elon
via @gilduran https://www.theframelab.org/destruction-of-government-by-elon-doge/
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⬆️ @slashdottir
>> Everyone seems to be averting their eyes from the fact that capitalism as a system seems to require underpaid or slave labor to keep things affordable to the general public so that it works out … Is there a way to have capitalism without relying on exploitation?
Fair, #progressiveTaxation is what's missing.
4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here.
Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
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⬆️ @slashdottir
>> Everyone seems to be averting their eyes from the fact that capitalism as a system seems to require underpaid or slave labor to keep things affordable to the general public so that it works out … Is there a way to have capitalism without relying on exploitation?
Fair, #progressiveTaxation is what's missing.
4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here.
Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
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⬆️ @slashdottir
>> Everyone seems to be averting their eyes from the fact that capitalism as a system seems to require underpaid or slave labor to keep things affordable to the general public so that it works out … Is there a way to have capitalism without relying on exploitation?
Fair, #progressiveTaxation is what's missing.
4+ decades of #Reagan #TrickleDown economic policies is what brought us here.
Problem is not #Capitalism but unbridled #laissezFaire. Govt is not optional.
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Poverty Pimps
How 'Helping The Homeless' Became A Billion Dollar Industry
#Unhoused #Homeless #Capitalism #LaissezFaire #Predation #Classism
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Crossroads on #CorporatePower
"the 1980s #laissezfaire approach to #antitrust laws: #wealth #inequality soared & new #innovators struggled to break thru an #incumbency advantage favored by #WallStreet.. new #merger #guidelines finalized by #FTC & DOJ last yr, amt to a new #corporate #charter for how #business can grow, establishes tt cos must #innovate iso acquire competitors for #marketshare.. by FTC’s count they’ve won in #court or o/w stopped ~90% of #mergerchallenges"
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The Sports Vendor Conglomerate Robbing You And Their Workers
#MorePerfectUnion #NeoFeudalism #CorporateFeudalism #LaissezFaire #Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW7hCwbqC1A -
This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
@rbreich
#LaissezFaire #Predatory #Capitalism
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Private Equity is Devouring The Last Remaining Affordable Housing in America
#MorePerfectUnion #LaissezFaire #Capitalism #PrivateEquity
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Paperwork!
> The more significant the social cost imposed upon his neighbor, the greater will be his reward in... the orthodox assumption of #MaximizingMan that each man will create a maximum of social costs which he can impose on others... this process [is] "the invisible foot" of the #LaissezFaire ... market place. The "#InvisibleFoot" ensures us that in a #FreeMarket ... economy each person.. will.. do his part in maximizing the general public misery...
https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/books/3/3.htm#3.2.1
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There is a reason Google's motto is no longer: Don't Be Evil.
From science, to art, politics, to religion, there is no arena of human endeavor where incentives of wealth and power encourage people to be more honest and objective.
Of these, the disciplines that suffer most from the disincentive of capitalism, greed, and ambition are education and science at every level.
Judge rules Google broke antitrust laws to maintain search monopoly
#Science #Engineering #Business #Capitalism #LaissezFaire #Neoliberalism #Plutocracy
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You've Been Lied to About Inflation I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #9
Robert Reich
@rbreich
#EconomicJustice #Neoliberalism #LaissezFaire #Capitalism
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@Neoresistant
Une bonne manière de dissiper ce doute est de préciser qu'on est contre le productivisme.
Ou de dire "contre le capitalisme, y compris le capitalisme d'État" (entendu comme un régime autoritaire où l'État est le seul capitaliste).Ce faisant, on exclut clairement le capitalisme occidental mais aussi l'URSS et les régimes du même type (Corée du Sud, Chine).
#Anticapitalisme #Productivisme #LaissezFaire #Autoritarisme #Decroissance #DeGrowth #EcologiePolitique #Democratie
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The Real Welfare in America | 10 Economic Myths Debunked #7
Robert Reich
@rbreich
#Laissezfaire #Capitalism #Socialism #CorporateWelfare
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@pa27 @RickiTarr excellent point wrt #laissezfaire
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Yeh, that's the realistic take.
#laissezfaire morphs to #aristocracy and a lord of the manor rent collecting.
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> #Reaganesque.. worship of the market.. quote the review.. in Foreign Affairs.. noting the “irony” that #RonaldReagan, “the postwar chief executive with the most passionate love of laissez faire, presided over the greatest swing toward protectionism since the 1930s”.. “passionate love of #LaissezFaire”: for you, market discipline, but not for me, unless the “playing field” happens to be tilted in my favor, typically as a result of large-scale state intervention.
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You love to see it: @gruber explicitly calls out the #EuropeanCommission’s #DigitalMarketsAct investigations/threats to #Apple, #Google, and #Meta as “#AntiCapitalist”: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/ec_non_compliance_investigations #DMA
If he can work his way toward realizing #LaissezFaire #capitalism as the only *moral* social system that limits #government to protecting #IndividualRights, enabling people to rationally pursue their happiness, we might make an #Objectivist out of him yet.
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No one has ever lived in a fully #LaissezFaire #capitalism society, just as Neo never saw light with his own eyes in #TheMatrix: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?item=qt0324258
Thus “The Unknown Ideal,” the subtitle of Ayn Rand’s anthology on the subject:
* https://aynrand.org/novels/capitalism-the-unknown-ideal/
* https://books2read.com/capitalismOr if you prefer video:
* #AynRand from 1967: https://youtu.be/NpQ4MopycVo
* #YaronBrook on #JohnStossel TV, 2023: https://youtu.be/58frp8Lb6Xc
* #GregSalmieri at last year’s #AynRandCon Europe: https://youtu.be/AAUqnNyMO2c -
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My #birthday is next month, and to celebrate I’m once again asking for tax-deductible #donations to The #AynRand Institute: https://gofund.me/61b0b9ee
97% of ARI’s revenue comes from contributors like you and me. Every little bit will help me reach my goal.
I’m already >60% to goal on a separate #Facebook #fundraiser—let’s see what the #fediverse can do!
#Objectivism #reason #SelfInterest #egoism #individualism #LaissezFaire #capitalism #happiness #freedom #liberty #philosophy #charity
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An Alphabet for the XXI Century proudly presents the letter L.
L is for #LaissezFaire
Technical term used in economics to indicate a situation where "I've got mine, you can go fck yourself".
https://paezha.github.io/ungrammetical-correctors-society/posts/2023-10-13-Inktober-L/
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#RoarkCapital , which is named after the ‘#LoneWolf ‘ hero Howard Roark in #AynRand ‘s fictional ode to #LaissezFaire capitalism, “The Fountainhead”, has purchased the #Subway sandwich chain. 👉 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/subway-sells-to-dunkin-owner-roark-capital.html
Would you like a side of hypocritical #Objectivism with your roast beef footlong?
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@DavidKnestrick So your ‘plan’ for addressing #ClimateChange is to keep doing what we’ve been doing for over two centuries and let the #FossilFuels fat cats remain in control of changes to #GlobalClimate ? 🤷🏻♂️
#LaissezFaire isn’t a plan, it’s a cop-out!
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File under “penny-wise but pound-foolish”: #Intel and #Qualcomm beg the #Biden administration to let them again freely sell to their enemies in #China seeking their destruction. https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/17/us_china_chip_wars/
I think they should get what they want, good and hard. And drop the strings-attached #ChipsAct #subsidies to #US #semiconductor firms. #LaissezFaire #capitalism
#semiconductors #chips #exports #Huawei #ChipsAndScience #ChipsAndScienceAct #LaissezFaireCapitalism
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"A toddler bitten on the neck and head in a dog attack on the Gold Coast is in hospital in a serious condition. It is the second dog attack in the state this week, after a six-year-old was injured south of Brisbane on Monday."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-12/qld-toddler-injured-in-gold-coast-dog-attack/102215648Images: #Bellingen Farmers & Producers (No #Dogs) Market is crawling with roaming dogs every week.
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How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood
Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)
#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Molasses #Boston #PurityDistillingCompany #Storage Tank #Suffocation #Horses #Euthanization #ClassActionLawsuit #Anarchists #LaissezFaire #ProgressiveEra
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How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood
Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)
#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Molasses #Boston #PurityDistillingCompany #Storage Tank #Suffocation #Horses #Euthanization #ClassActionLawsuit #Anarchists #LaissezFaire #ProgressiveEra
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How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood
Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)
#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Molasses #Boston #PurityDistillingCompany #Storage Tank #Suffocation #Horses #Euthanization #ClassActionLawsuit #Anarchists #LaissezFaire #ProgressiveEra
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How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood
Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)
#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Molasses #Boston #PurityDistillingCompany #Storage Tank #Suffocation #Horses #Euthanization #ClassActionLawsuit #Anarchists #LaissezFaire #ProgressiveEra
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How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood
Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)
#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Molasses #Boston #PurityDistillingCompany #Storage Tank #Suffocation #Horses #Euthanization #ClassActionLawsuit #Anarchists #LaissezFaire #ProgressiveEra
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Live on #YouTube in one hour! https://www.youtube.com/live/6kgc8l9kWfU
To celebrate the 118th anniversary of #AynRand’s birth, New Ideal Live interviews Harry Binswanger on Rand's distinctively value-centered approach to #philosophy—and to living #life. Join us—TODAY (2/2) at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET!
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#values #ethics #egoism #reason #RationalSelfInterest #selfishness #LaissezFaireCapitalism #capitalism #LaissezFaire #TheFountainhead #AtlasShrugged
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@d3cline @mmasnick America is a deeply mixed economy sliding toward #socialism and has never seen full #LaissezFaire #capitalism. It is successful to the extent that the capitalist parts are begrudgingly allowed to function.
But because our culture is threaded with the #altruist moral ideal of serving others first, trade and commerce only happen because they pragmatically “work,” not because of any constitutionally inviolate recognition of the moral right to life and property.
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@d3cline @mmasnick America is a deeply mixed economy sliding toward #socialism and has never seen full #LaissezFaire #capitalism. It is successful to the extent that the capitalist parts are begrudgingly allowed to function.
But because our culture is threaded with the #altruist moral ideal of serving others first, trade and commerce only happen because they pragmatically “work,” not because of any constitutionally inviolate recognition of the moral right to life and property.
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@d3cline @mmasnick America is a deeply mixed economy sliding toward #socialism and has never seen full #LaissezFaire #capitalism. It is successful to the extent that the capitalist parts are begrudgingly allowed to function.
But because our culture is threaded with the #altruist moral ideal of serving others first, trade and commerce only happen because they pragmatically “work,” not because of any constitutionally inviolate recognition of the moral right to life and property.
