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It’s like if we called totalitarian dictatorships the only “Free” nations because their rulers have complete freedom to do what they want.
A "free society" is one in which the citizens can vote on how it operates. You'd think a "free market" and "free enterprise" would be the same, but they actually mean the opposite: the workers and the public must have no say in what is produced, or how, in order to be "free".
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One man, one vote
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That seems an unusual definition. Democracy is useful, but not, I think, something that should be a terminal value?
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It isn't precisely, but as far as the organization of production goes it may as well be. The capitalist business is undeniably an authoritarian structure.
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The alternative is unworkable
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Ah, yes, The alternative. There are literally only two options. But one of the two is unworkable. And the one involving lots of needless death is somehow the workable one.
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A "free market" is a bit like a "free tiger". It is its own creature with its own interests and desires, concerned with self preservation and perpetuation, usually at the cost of the freedoms or lives of any humans that happen to be interacting with it. Caged tiger is preferable.
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"Work will set you free" or at least that's what the gate said
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