Neither the US nor China are truly free markets. They both play with taxes, tariffs, and subsides to affect commerce both international and domestic.
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 months ago
Free market countries when free markets enter their house:
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 months ago
CommunistBear@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Yeah but the US is the one constantly jerking itself into a frenzy about “free markets”
Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 months ago
“True free markets have never been tried!”
lol
DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 4 months ago
I love this libertarian obsession with “true free markets” as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.
protist@mander.xyz 4 months ago
How braindead do you have to be to call Temu a “free market?” They exploit a loophole in the tax code to undercut competitors, and in so doing use way more packaging materials and expend significantly more energy per item in trans-oceanic transportation than typical bulk trade does