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  • When you outline your ideal society, having antitrust laws, strong regulations, etc, you leave out analysis of political power.

    They seem to have some inkling of that based on their last paragraph (emphasis mine):

    So yes, there is an in-between. And it depends exactly how much business is left to the government and how much is left to companies. This balance is defined by politics.


    [Y]ou haven’t actually engaged with Communists and their ideas, legitimately, and likely would agree with us.

    Hopefully true based on what I just highlighted.




  • Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England.

    They were pissy that the king made it illegal to expand westward and exterminate all of the indigenous people. They were all “no, actually, the British Empire isn’t evil enough. Let’s make an even bigger and eviller empire than the [at the time] most evil empire on Earth.”

    This is a human problem, not a national one.

    It is a national and class problem, not a human one. Human nature is a bs concept invented to sell the status quo.