It would be true. Except this only works in a genuinely free market. We’ve not had a really free market for a long time now. The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.
The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.
Which seems to be an inevitability, unless state power is used to force the people at the top to play by the rules. But don’t most liberals consider that authoritarianism? It seems to me whenever something like that is mentioned, there is much hand wringing and clutching of pearls at the thought of such big government overreach.
It is, but when people talk about a free market preventing this. They would be right when there’s genuine competition. However at some point, there’s always going to be a better upside for those at the top to collaborate, in order to share the far far more cash they can extract from everyone below them when they do.
It’s just, it’s no longer fashionable to put on a face of decency. They’re full mask off now.
I’m not writing a wikipedia article here[1]. Just writing a comment on what is just an internet forum.
[1] https://kbin.life/m/[email protected]/t/588402/CEO-pay-soared-in-2025-20-times-faster-than-workers/comment/7663743#entry-comment-7663743 “just a comment” posted to kbin.life, part of the threadiverse.
I’m calling bullshit on any idea suggesting there was more than 30 seconds of a “really free market” at some point in any modern countries history that could qualify the “we”
Right. I mean I don’t know how far back we’d need to go to find a truly free market, possibly before we have the concept of money. I think fair is also too subjective for me to give any real definitive article for too.
A genuinely free market would be even worse. We do have various protections in the US. If we had zero, companies would be dumping waste and giving everyone super-cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
I had a conversation with a coworker a while ago where he was like, “Well I just wouldn’t buy the swill milk.”
I was like, "How would you know??
The utter hubris of that kind of person thinking they’re going to like spin up a whole chemistry lab to check the quality of everything they buy. The insanity of thinking that’s a good world to envision.
It would be true. Except this only works in a genuinely free market. We’ve not had a really free market for a long time now. The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.
Which seems to be an inevitability, unless state power is used to force the people at the top to play by the rules. But don’t most liberals consider that authoritarianism? It seems to me whenever something like that is mentioned, there is much hand wringing and clutching of pearls at the thought of such big government overreach.
It is, but when people talk about a free market preventing this. They would be right when there’s genuine competition. However at some point, there’s always going to be a better upside for those at the top to collaborate, in order to share the far far more cash they can extract from everyone below them when they do.
It’s just, it’s no longer fashionable to put on a face of decency. They’re full mask off now.
Yes, the mask is fully off. So, again, won’t state power be needed to reign these people in?
Citation needed.
I’m not writing a wikipedia article here[1]. Just writing a comment on what is just an internet forum.
[1] https://kbin.life/m/[email protected]/t/588402/CEO-pay-soared-in-2025-20-times-faster-than-workers/comment/7663743#entry-comment-7663743 “just a comment” posted to kbin.life, part of the threadiverse.
I’m calling bullshit on any idea suggesting there was more than 30 seconds of a “really free market” at some point in any modern countries history that could qualify the “we”
Right. I mean I don’t know how far back we’d need to go to find a truly free market, possibly before we have the concept of money. I think fair is also too subjective for me to give any real definitive article for too.
A genuinely free market would be even worse. We do have various protections in the US. If we had zero, companies would be dumping waste and giving everyone super-cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal
I had a conversation with a coworker a while ago where he was like, “Well I just wouldn’t buy the swill milk.”
I was like, "How would you know??
The utter hubris of that kind of person thinking they’re going to like spin up a whole chemistry lab to check the quality of everything they buy. The insanity of thinking that’s a good world to envision.