IMHO, the ideal economy would be totally free of government intervention on the front end, BUT, there would be strong government support on the back end to punish those guilty of deception, theft, etc. No more of this white collar slap on the wrist bullshit. If you aren’t totally honest and acting in good faith, and your actions result in someone else’s loss/injury, you’re liable. No different than if you’d snuck into their house and stole it from their wallet.
Perhaps Ford built a factory in VZ because they were selling so many trucks there. Now that everybody is equal under socialism no one can afford to buy one.
Small country with enough income for it's inhabitants to buy more new pickups than any other country in the entire world behind the US... Says quite a bit about their economy at the time.
It still seems out of place. There has to be a hundred things these inhabitants were also buying that would be more relevant.
Fuck, I don’t know. We can just drop it. I thought maybe it was something else that just happened to be the same name as a popular pickup truck.
I did too at first but then in context it made sense. Granted the context is indeed silly but it is a meme.
Ideals are ideal because they have nothing to do with reality. You’re asking for something that will never exist and couldn’t persist even if it did. A system without government intervention isn’t stable. It will naturally evolve to greater state involvement as non-state actors and the populace use the power of the state to exert control for their personal benefit. Even without the evolution of state power, various actors would acquire and wield state like powers for their own purposes. The history of the state and the market in the United States is proof of this. The system is currently meta-stable but is on a path toward de facto fascism.
Metastable as in stable over a relatively short time span. Fascism as in economic fascism wherein the state and private business merge. I think Chinese crony capitalism is a good example of this. I fully expect big tech companies and the government to become one and the same.
I still don't understand your position. Who is leading us towards this "economic fascism"? Is big tech the only part of this equation you're concerned about? Is nationalism a part of this? Isolationism?