Honestly I am absolutely terrified of people who don’t believe in market economies because those are the people who turned my grandparents into refugees from China, and my mom’s family into refugees from Myanmar 20th century was not kind to my ancestors, and history repeats
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Replying to @garrytan
It depends on the efficiency of the market economy - when it’s captured by a few at the top , then it’s a market in theory and it’s more dangerous than the alternative.
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Replying to @maggycoffee @garrytan
which market economy with an income equality issue is worse than mao’s china
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Replying to @aquariusacquah @garrytan
yeah it doesn’t really count as a free market when people are literally enslaved
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@micsolana what about today where even without enslavement, value is tied to the race of the asset holder. Check out this article:http://bostonreview.net/race/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-against-black-homeownership …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Quote from article: Markets are not shaped by need alone. They are shaped by political, social, economic, and in the case of housing, racial concerns
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yes this continues to be spectacularly incomparable to widespread famine and literal death camps
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