Tempest62 » 28 Dec 2023, 9:47 pm » wrote: ↑
Without question:
patriotism > nationalist >>> globalist idiot
I don’t have time for douchebag political nationalists. They love a king they agree with.
Sumela the Russian house *** and I have another major disagreement. He loves the idea of a strongman dictator type or communist in charge of a market economy.
Capitalism is a government managed economy, whether you realize this or not. If capitalism were merely people being people, it could not be shut down.
Take communist Russia. There was not a WHIFF of capitalism in the Russian air. But free enterprise? Oh, that went on. It was often in a black market format - far more often in the format of a simple exchange between neighbors. FREE ENTERPRISE will always exist, in every nation. Because it is a function of our humanity to trade labor, favors, goods - what have you. It is irrepressible. To forego it would be other than human.
But CAPITALISM? Now that requires the active assistance and guns of a state. In the US, we have a regulated market that issues birth certificates and licenses to players, and a state department that opens doors to markets they can exploit. If diplomacy fails, there is a military to kick those doors down. The tax code favors those who invest their retirement in the market, and punishes those who refuse. The regulatory environment creates hurdles to prevent mom and pops from doing business - much less achieving scale. A more government enforced economy has never existed.
All you have to do to stop capitalism is not help it.
If you can name a government on the planet that does not control the economy, I am all ears. I cannot imagine who, other than a government, you would WANT to direct and control its nation's market. In the age when moon launches and hydro dams and aircraft carriers require a directed economy, it seems unlikely that a pure, unregulated free enterprise economy could manage a nation state - though I would be delighted to see us try it, as I believe it to be the highest and best expression of our shared humanity.
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