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>normies
your country is rated as junk and the only thing holding you together is mass surveillance and crime so your value judgements are not worth much
>how can you have a free market, if you allow equal access to both externally good faith and well as bad faith actors
right about everyone on this board explained to you that it is indeed not allowed to mix good and bad actors
>Friendman didn't support monopolies
>Smith said that the stock market (speculative trading) leads to economies of surplus that will favor capital accumulation instead of progress
there are anti-trust laws and anti-monopoly laws in effect to eliminate the bad actors but just because you're an oligarchy where everything is arranged and you have zero partisanship or polarization doesn't mean it does not work out for anyone else
>specially when some of said bad faith actors have a massive size advantage and willingness to disregard [...]
well sure, that's why lots of people do not want Russia to be part of the European Union
>complaining that you've gone full circle and ended up a communist surveillance state and your conclusion from that is that capitalism doesn't work even though you did not establish any preconditions for any capitalism to exist while constantly intefering in the market
you
>Why would a corporation hire a US citizen for $15/hr+benefits when you can hire a spic for $5/hr with a fine that
muh 50 cents more meme
capitalism does account for poor decisions and if you're going to fire very competent workers in order to hire low-skill labor in order to reduce the costs of work, then your company will more than likely take a deep dive and start losing value quickly
>t. Tesla being one of the best rated companies whose stock plummeted this year
who would have thought, hmm, you definitely would not have with your current reasoning
Romania also obliterated its middle class as part of Sovietism and you ended up with a criminal country, again, for me it was foreseeable