How to make your community thrive: remove socialist policies, encourage wealth, and ignore the "woke" nonsense.
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@amerika @37712 even those are indirect ways of subsidizing big business. the small guys trying to get by on their own don't have the money for the lawyers to skirt around the maze of regs and taxes.
whatś more is that this stuff was already happening all the way back in the Civil War era, just not the extent of today. So it's arguable that america ever was a capitalist paradise. If we were, it was probably only for 10 minutes.
whatś more is that this stuff was already happening all the way back in the Civil War era, just not the extent of today. So it's arguable that america ever was a capitalist paradise. If we were, it was probably only for 10 minutes.
This is true. Of course, the political machines go back to the early 1800s...
The Wild West was as close as we got and even they needed sheriffs and the cavalry.
Every government regulation, law, and tax raises the cost of business, and this rewards the big guys while punishing the small.
"Evil" corporations are mostly a government creation.
@37712
Part of capitalism is letting businesses fail, even monopolies.
We tend to try to steer away from it because it is disruptive, but sometimes we need a little conflict and chaos to get to where we need to be.