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7/12/2025, 1:42:32 PM
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>>So there isn't real capitalism to begin with.
100%. As soon as you have a central government and laws, it's no longer a fully free market.
But there are degrees of freedom. For example, During the last 40 years in China, up until the last 10 years or so, there was a remarkable degree of freedom to start new businesses and much of it was tolerated, if not encouraged, if not actively supported by the chinese government. Very little bureaucracy and very little by the way of regulations, environmental or otherwise. So long as you stayed in your lane,, didn't cause direct trouble for other people or businesses, you were good to go. Almost anything was allowed, until the government decided it wasn't, which has been increasing over the last decade.
Contrast the last 40 years in the USA where in some jurisdictions, you could spend $250,000 and more than a year getting permits to open a sandwich shop.
One of the largest copper ore bodies in the world is in Arizona, over a billion tons of 1.5% ore, (3 times as rich as the average current copper mine) right next to a usable water source, with roads and powerlines nearby, a few miles from a town where a bunch of former copper miners live. The mine has been in the permitting process for TWENTY FIVE YEARS.
Alberta tried to run a second pipeline beside a pre-existing smaller pipeline. (1,150 km) Justin Trudeau passed new environmental review rules. Original price estimate $5.3 billion. After new evironmental rules, the company GAVE UP after spending 9 billion. The federal government bought out the project and $31 BILLION dollars later (and 10 years) it was complete. $27 milion dollars PER KILOMETER.
Western countries are run by women and idiots who have never had to run a real world productive enterprise. Like Mark Carney, or Justin Trudeau. All the current leaders come from finance, law, or public sector bureaucracies.
>>510169466
>>So there isn't real capitalism to begin with.
100%. As soon as you have a central government and laws, it's no longer a fully free market.
But there are degrees of freedom. For example, During the last 40 years in China, up until the last 10 years or so, there was a remarkable degree of freedom to start new businesses and much of it was tolerated, if not encouraged, if not actively supported by the chinese government. Very little bureaucracy and very little by the way of regulations, environmental or otherwise. So long as you stayed in your lane,, didn't cause direct trouble for other people or businesses, you were good to go. Almost anything was allowed, until the government decided it wasn't, which has been increasing over the last decade.
Contrast the last 40 years in the USA where in some jurisdictions, you could spend $250,000 and more than a year getting permits to open a sandwich shop.
One of the largest copper ore bodies in the world is in Arizona, over a billion tons of 1.5% ore, (3 times as rich as the average current copper mine) right next to a usable water source, with roads and powerlines nearby, a few miles from a town where a bunch of former copper miners live. The mine has been in the permitting process for TWENTY FIVE YEARS.
Alberta tried to run a second pipeline beside a pre-existing smaller pipeline. (1,150 km) Justin Trudeau passed new environmental review rules. Original price estimate $5.3 billion. After new evironmental rules, the company GAVE UP after spending 9 billion. The federal government bought out the project and $31 BILLION dollars later (and 10 years) it was complete. $27 milion dollars PER KILOMETER.
Western countries are run by women and idiots who have never had to run a real world productive enterprise. Like Mark Carney, or Justin Trudeau. All the current leaders come from finance, law, or public sector bureaucracies.
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