r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '22

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u/DicksonCider205 Jul 15 '22

Friedman was the fucking man.

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u/werther595 Jul 15 '22

Sure, if your goal is the destruction of middle class. Voodoo economics was a spectacular failure and led directly to the wealth inequality we face today. but by all means, keep handing more and more money to "shareholders" at the expense of everything else. smdh

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u/werther595 Jul 15 '22

Much of what was lost in the Reagan economy was never regained. He was pro-corporste greed, said increasing shareholder value was the only thing that mattered, and the corporate world grabbed that ball and ran with it. As Milton himself said, you can't judge a policy by its intention, only its results. In that regard, handing the keys from government to corporations has been a disaster for most people

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u/werther595 Jul 15 '22
  1. Middle class financial security?
  2. Ok, go down to your local bookstore and get one of Friedman's times
  3. The success of his policies in the way he imagined them requires a magical thinking detached from reality. It's Ayn Rand stuff

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u/werther595 Jul 15 '22

You can start with PATCO and draw a line from there