On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:34:14 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
I agree with all of that. This amounts to a vague mish-mash of meanings, where the meanings themselves can be gravely in error. Yes, some people refer to the American system as "free market", which I think is laughably inaccurate!
Why? Is it because poor american corporations are being oppressed by the government? Like the supreme 'libertarian' 'thinker' ayn randroid taught?
If anything, I think the reason that governments support Riseup (sorta behind the scenes) is actually to keep true "free markets" at bay.
Isn't that the job of google, intel, and all the rest of american 'free enterrise'? In the grand scheme of things riseup is a nonentity - so how are they keeping 'free markets' at bay?
I have long believed that we would be much better off with a true, anarchistic free market (which some call "anarcho-capitalism") with what we currently call "government" dissolved. Jim Bell