• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Capitalists say the free market is king then they go and make laws to stifle and restrict it so they can make monopolies and gouge everyone out of their hard-earned income.

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      8 hours ago

      They are not Capitalists. In fact capitalism is a great idea, it just we don’t have it.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        Other way around. They’re capitalists but don’t support the free market. So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere with patent-infringing sales.

        And I’d argue that capitalism is an inherently bad idea, even in theory. Nobody deserves free rent just for owning something, like land or natural resources. Property manager is a job, landlord is not.

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          So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere

          We should take a step back and recognize that they want the government to interfere by recognizing and enforcing their ownership of the factory in the first place.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        Properly regulated capitalism isn’t strictly horrible. The biggest issue we have is that first bit, unfortunately.

        -Me, a dirty socialist