Just because I don’t believe in Randite anything goes capitalism doesn’t mean I’m a socialists. But you’re probably too stupid to understand nuance.
Any form of intervention in the economy is some form of exertion of ownership over the means of production. The only way one has true unfettered ownership over their property is if they have total control over it and are entitled to 100% of the proceeds. When governments control how much you can pay your employees, who you can hire and fire, and reap the profits, they are exerting ownership. You're probably too dumb to have thought this out, so I have to lay it out for you.
Yes obstacles like banning child labor or food safety regulations.
Ok so you're making my argument for me, thank you.
There is a reason the progressive era happened, it’s because the titians of industry you love so much we’re making the workers live such a nightmare that people like Teddy Roosevelt ( an insanely rich man who hated Marxism) had to step in or an actual revolution would have eventually happened. Look up William Jennings Bryant or the Haymarket Riot sometime.
Please look up wages from 1870 to 1913, and how marginal productivity drastically increased during this time. The reason the Progressive Era happened had absolutely nothing to do evil Titans of industry and everything to do with economic illiteracy running rampant. Workers lived far better lives in the 1910s than they did in the 1870s, and all economic data shows this. Teddy Roosevelt was a tyrant who sought to use left-wing populism to achieve political power and grant himself undeserved political power. He even used Sherman Anti-Trust to destroy one of America's greatest oil companies, smashing it to pieces and forcing a sell off.
Again just because I’m not a dog eat dog libertarian doesn’t make me a socialists. I want a capitalist system with a strong social safety net. I don’t want the government to control everything, but it absolutely has a role to play in ameliorating the excesses of the free market.
So you want people to have their money stolen from them, you want businesses to have their profits reaped, and reallocated accordingly by a slew of politicians and bureaucrats according to what they deem in the best interest of society? Yeah you're a socialist. The only role the Federal government has is to protect National Security, that's literally it.
Somalia doesn’t have a very powerful central government either, that sounds like your type of place. That place should be a utopia right? No pesky government regulation to get in the way of John Gault huh?
That's literally your kind of place. A place where private property isn't protected. If I run a business in Somalia, some thug can come and steal my shit and "redistribute" it to his friends. Some Pirate can come and kill me if he doesn't agree with my business practices, maybe he'll hit me over the head with a Big Stick like your boy Teddy Roosevelt.
And if you actually support free markets shouldn’t you hate the tard in your AVI whose putting tariffs in everything?
As much as I disagree with tariffs, I can forgive him for that considering he's taking a sludge-hammer to the government intervention that I despise the most. Trump has signed a 10-1 deregulation executive order that forces all Federal Agencies to remove 10 regulations for every new one added, he's attacking social security, medicaid, and medicare in his proposed budgets. He obliterated the Dept of Education, firing Federal Bureaucrats left and right, he's allowing Elon to deregulate everything regarding Aviation and Space Exploration, he's lowering taxes on corporations and dropping marginal tax rates. All the increases in government spending has gone to the military, which is the one legitimate Federal function that is legitimate, and one of the only few that are constitutionally permissible.
And he never misses an opportunity to whack off some anti-west dictator and shit on our allies. Christ you must hate that guy, unless you’re a fucking moron who has no idea what he’s talking about, but that can’t be it.
"Anti-West Dictators" offer their citizens far more freedom than the "Western Leaders" do. This isn't 1890 when the West actually had freedom. It's in the "free world" where kids are taken from their parents if mom and dad dare to reject their child's new "gender identity". It's in England where Kier Starmer will send you to prison for sharing an offensive meme. Germany is where you'll be imprisoned for doing a salute. In every single European nation they have seatbelt laws, mandated by the E.U itself. Finland is criminalizing the sale of cigarettes for anyone born after 2006.
The only people who hate Donald Trump are the people who have absolutely zero understanding of the world, and they still believe we're living in 1905 when the West was the beacon of freedom. The West as we know it today has been taken over by feminists and nanny state freaks.
