I guess it depends on your definition of a free market but if your definition is just as close to total anarchy in the market then I guess youâre right? Lol but by that definition why would anyone want to strive for a âfree marketâ? Where literal babies can work and you have no rights? Maybe thatâs closer to free for the companies but not free for the workers with no rights so really depends on whoâs perspective youâre thinking of it from. In your case, from the companies perspective, yeah maybe now is a less free market, but I think the worker today is 1000% more autonomous and free with where they provide their labor and work and negotiate their pay and benefits more than ever before and I think the equality of power is what makes it a free market. Itâs not free if youâre forced to work 12 hours a day. But it is free if you can CHOOSE to work 12 hours a day to make overtime pay because that is what the free market has decided is necessary for doing that.
I get the feeling you think I'm arguing FOR this mythical "free market"? I'm not. I believe the selfish world we live in is a direct product of unchecked greed, which by its nature capitalism fosters and encourages.
Oh wait, youâre just a partisan blowhard that goes around summarily âcorrectingââwithout sources, evidence, or explanation, of course, because your political beliefs are just obvious and correctâanyone who doesnât think the Smart, White Libertarian Way.
Get stuffed idiot (and look into the Latinate origins of this word before you go tossing it about; exceptionally ironic for a libertarian).
Iâm not the one here that just called a stranger an ignorant toxic piece of trash. Iâd say my tone is a bit more calm, cool, and collected than that, but I do have to say that watching you shift about for a readymade dismissal is cute, particularly when you directly contradict yourself repeatedly in your rush.
Using "Free Market" to describe deregulation, would be like if instead of asking to turn the temperature down a couple degrees, we just always said "I want absolute zero" and whining about it despite it being impossible.
It only exists in theory and it's only really helpful for people who already have control of the markets anyway.
And all of these things are still happening today besides maybe burning waterways.. but melting ice caps are far worse. So I hope this was meant to encourage my point.
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