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it's rare you hear someone praising money-printing.

I feel like this is becoming too focused on obamacare, which may indeed be a mess, but the whole American health care system seems to be a bit of a mess to begin with. I was initially responding to...

Large clients have a lot of sway over providers regardless of whether they're government or private. Wall-mart has sway over its providers and they have to bend over backwards because it's in their...

Haven't you been reading wuf's posts about capitalism with welfareism vs socialism/communism? It's not communism just because the government funds healthcare and education because the means of...

Just like how chrony socialcommunism and "real" communism are not one in the same, when I compare the people bastardized versions of both imma haf to say chrony capitalism is the best right now AINEC

Yeah fairly true, though I think modern social mobility provides an amount of opportunity that's unique. The number of low->high transitions that happen in one generation, (albeit still low), are...

I'll admit that money has less power than is has historically. I do think that things are better than they ever have been, and some of that is capitalism, some of that is "enlightenment" (democracy,...

The problem with these things is most people are ideologues, one way or the other. Staying objective it hard apparently, but if you can pull it together, you stand chance of seeing the strengths and...

To be fair, all the important governments are largely controlled by industry so of course they're not biting the hand that feeds. Presumably these socialist tomato pelter types you speak of are...

yeah let's hijack this into a 9/11 truthers or w/e thread!

I went through a phase and eventually came to the conclusion that there are some fishy things about 9/11 and that the 'conspiracy nuts'...

Funny you mention that word.





I also never said that they completely control the market, only that they have significant influence. Regardless, oil is a barely free market.

How can you be lauding free market capitalism when talking about oil, one of the most heavily regulated commodities there are? OPEC has so much influence on international oil prices and frequently...

Human philanthropy is just a biproduct of the benefit that cooperation provided humans over mutations that didn't want to cooperate. Strength in numbers etc. So yeah it's selfish in the sense that...

I agree with wuggy. All these years I thought I lived in a socialist country and thus was a socialist, but it turns out I'm a firm believer in somewhat regulated capitalism with some welfarism mixed...