Down we go further into the rabbit hole: why are MC/Visa/PayPal/Patreon acting as censors? They are fighting "hate speech." But--the Achilles heel of such conceptualization--who defines "hate?" Answer: Those to whom you would least want to grant such power. https://twitter.com/LeahMcSweeney/status/1079403463400976390 …
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You’re missing an important point: the financial system is one of the most (if not the most) regulated businesses in the planet. There’s no ideal capitalism there.
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They cry for free markets while buying congressmen for licensing and other barriers to entry. Bankers abhor a free market.
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I find Marxist criticism of capitalism on point in plenty of cases - though their desired solution is, to say the least, horrible.
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this is another problem in the modern "debate". Everything is reduced to ad hominem. If Marx said it, it's Wrong™. If the founding fathers said it - it's Right™. No nuance anywhere. It's all just holy scripture.
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Their critiques are generally valid. It's their solutions that leave me scratching my head.
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Scary thought
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Too much passive money invested, interests under-represented, failure in business education (corporate stewardship, governance, etc), and too much CEO power (both actual and perceived)
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Those institutions are not 'capitalist' tho, or they wouldn't do what they're doing, right?
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Only if you count self-fulfilled prophecies. Marxist/PoMos have seized control of these, and many other, institutions as part of their Long March through the institutions. This quote is abt religion but they have been attacking all the pillars of our free society for decades.pic.twitter.com/XHzBAS6vy1
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We should never have allowed so much consolidation in banking. The takeover of the banks and payment processors is a real threat to our economy and eventually, to world peace. Time for gov’t action (God help us)?
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