Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself

• einkorn@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A “free market” as in the sense these lunatics envision it is a market devoid of any form of outside regulations. In essence, survival of the fittest on an economical level: Profit above all else, might makes right, consequences be damned. One president führer CEO calling the shots, everybody else following or getting crushed in the machinery.

  So you tell me: What’s not authoritarian about corporate capitalism?

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assure you the Trump Admin is far from Anarchist. They intend to impose many rules that benefit them.

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    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Without government regulation in a specific area <> anarchist.

      Let’s not confuse things.

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  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He said Capitalism, not Corporate Capitalism. Pure, unfettered Capitalism leads to the same place facism, communism, and feudalism go.

    The issue is “unfettered”. Regulations enforced upon the operation of the markets, maintained by rule of law, enables achievement of greater agency and success upon much larger parts of society.

    People understand they can prosper from creating real value, which pushes society toward greater advancements to quality of life and enable more individual freedom than any prior economic and political system.

    Kill the illness, not the patient.

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