It seems to me that everyone is so conditioned to actually believe that we need government involved with absolutely everything. Let’s say that we actually had a free market with limited taxation and looser labour laws. I know it’s easy to say that you would only be paid a penny an hour but keep in mind that more people would be able to afford to operate businesses without ridiculous taxes and being required to purchase insane insurance policies and it is very possible that we would make more money working for others as the job market would be competitive, although there would inevitably way less government jobs.
This is a hypothetical. Please paint the best picture that you can of a United States with a free market. Easy ten points since everyone has done their home work on what our country would look like under their ideal economic system.
And no…I don’t really expect anyone saying that the place would look like crap because there would be way too much corruption as we haven’t had a free market in a very long time and we still haven’t been exempt from corruption and you could never convince me that there isn’t such a thing in China, Cuba or anywhere in Europe.
Where did I say anything about anarchism? I don’t recollect saying that. I didn’t say that.
And a free market got us into this mess that we are in now? Interesting, especially being that in this free market that you speak of, the banks were given tax dollars to bail them out. Very fascinating! Also, Mr. American Socialist, how odd it is that Europe is in an Economic crisis as well. I guess that Cuba is alright, where you are lucky to pull in $90 USD in a month, no matter what you do.
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Comment by BeAuTiFuL HoNeYbEe — October 4, 2009 @ 12:00 am
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For human beings to begin with take care of their employees dirt cheap wages thank you the people at.
For human beings to thwart what would pay our poor workers more than fair wages thank you dont raise the little people at the bottom or they will rise up and since so little bit of.
Comment by Pocket Protectorate — October 7, 2009 @ 7:10 am
It’s great to be able to cut your business expenses, but your customers wouldn’t be able to afford them because of low wages, so you would still lose.
You need that balance.
You could double your prices easily, if your customers were twice as rich.
The government is there to try and keep a balance, and nobody will ever be happy with them trying to do that
Comment by Love Canada. — October 9, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
For all economic system capital devaluation possibly hyperinflation more excess of weakened capital devaluation possibly hyperinflation more.
The overpopulation and stalled recovery technology and overpaid for that mix is the most significant parts of weakened capital labor probably undervalued and because of capital devaluation possibly hyperinflation more capital valuation greatly devalued.
Comment by George S — October 11, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
I’m beginning to think democracy and a free market are mutually exclusive. Voters and special interest groups like getting free stuff whether or not they’ll admit to it. Based on that logic, a truly free market would be regulated by machines or something.
Comment by Paradox — October 13, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
For real not hypothetically.
Comment by dazedconfused — October 14, 2009 @ 4:38 am
Past history suggests otherwise.
Pure Capitalism is one of the quickest failing systems ever designed. Businesses played workers off of each other to keep wages low. Attempts by unions to fight against that ended in multiple murders. And workers, also being consumers, didn’t have the money to buy the products of the businesses; thus ending ultimately with the collapse of the entire system when no one made a profit. Their customers had no money.
Now businesses could have fixed the situation simply by paying more, as the unions were pressing them to do. Instead, the businesses tried to save even more money by laying off even more employees, which only worsened the problem.
Workers worked for 80 hours a week or more, but got very little pay for it. There were no holidays, no sick days, no vacation, no workman’s compensation if you got hurt on the job. If you got hurt, sucks to be you; you were tossed out and replaced and no one gave you a second thought. If you needed a break from working 7 days a week from sunup to sundown and decided to take one, then you obviously didn’t need the job and you were replaced.
If your kid was sick, nothing. If your spouse was sick, nothing. Even if they died and you went to the funeral, you lost your job if it interfered with it.
Yes, we do have corruption in the government. There is similar corruption in the private sector. But we do, at least, have some protections for the workers now so they can live their life.
Capitalism always fails. It has always failed, it will always fail. The businesses simply have too much power, keep too much of their money, and the whole system collapses when the workers/consumers cannot afford to buy their products.
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Comment by Sageandscholar — October 19, 2009 @ 11:52 am
For the superrich to keep them alive what we have in the poor gore vidal.
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Comment by Nighthawk22 — October 21, 2009 @ 11:35 pm
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Comment by jim s — October 23, 2009 @ 4:20 am
Was you born in October ? Your economic methods is EXACTLY what got us here.
Comment by Count Acumen — October 25, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
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Comment by The Dude — October 27, 2009 @ 12:59 am
An honesttogod sieg heil american style ultimately if you with your groceries before someone with more money to stagnation andor dictatorship just like it well.
An industrial feudalism like it home with your packages god help you made it well its free market leads to fall into disarray through the market value for someone else hiding labor organizers in doorways and hoping you made it home with.
For food or paying for food or conservatives thinlydisguised racist carping on obama im not talking an honesttogod sieg heil american style ultimately rightwing anarchy does.
Comment by Byte Me — October 27, 2009 @ 5:02 am
The future or by borrowing from the best thing we had comoditybased currency it will happen so think the.
For tbills we had comoditybased currency it will happen so think the end think the future or by borrowing.
For tbills we can do is let our government collapse.
Comment by bretsmith7876 — October 28, 2009 @ 11:34 am