• kinsnik@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    laissez-faire capitalism doens’t actually work if externalities need to be factored in the price

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      21 hours ago

      Laissez-faire capitalism is a cancer.

      It’s also impossible, since it has two contradictory meanings: a market with no regulations, and a market free from barriers to entry. But an unregulated market will always degenerate to an oligopoly, and oligopolists always end up rigging their markets.

      That’s why my definition of a libertarian is someone who doesn’t understand second-order effects. Their whole world view is doggy-doggy horsey-horsey linear relations. It’s even dumber than being crudely mechanistic.