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That's rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means.
Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That's been a complete failure.
What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by:
But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.
Its the definition according to the people who dont actually want socialism...
Everyone disagrees with what socialism means when you listen to the people who say "Socialism is the Soviets! Socialism is death panels! Socialism is when government bad!"
But if youre listening to those people you dont actually care what Socialism is, you just want an excuse to keep a broken system so you dont have to work at changing it.
Socialism is unions... but from the top down instead of just at the bottom trying to mitigate the problems brought about by capitalism. Socialism is people working together for the greater good instead of the greater profit. Socialism is people matter instead of money.
I suppose if that's the opposite of what you want, youre right to oppose it.
Imagine believing in this nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Not even close to "exact". You forgot the centuries of violence, colonialism, imperialism, racism, etc.
A free market isn't really the same as "the owners keep the profits".
They're just throwing out ideological phrases from their indoctrination. Nothing coherent.