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  • acargitz@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldFactual btw
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    25 days ago

    You seem to assume that mergers and acquisitions are not an essential part of a market economy. Left to their own devices, capitalists will always end up trying to form monopolies. You need a strong regulatory state to keep them in check. But then because they are inexorably pulled towards maximizing profitability, they will try to capture the state and deregulate. So, unless you go to a very aggressively anticapitalist set of policies a market economy will never be “functioning” for long.













  • Right? Wrong?

    I asked you a question, I didn’t make an argument or assert a position.

    This is surreal. It’s like:

    You: why does everyone say good afternoon when it’s only 12:30?!

    Me: what time zone are you in buddy?

    You: you didn’t answer my question!

    Me: I mean, China for example is all on the same timezone regardless of how west or east you are.

    You: FINE. YOU’RE RIGHT. I’M WRONG. HAPPY?

    Me: wtf man, I just asked you your fucking timezone.


  • It does. The centre-left in Montreal municipal politics corresponds to the left wing of the left in Canadian federal politics. So if I write a long diatribe lamenting how the centre left in Montreal is not progressive enough, and send it over to someone in Alberta, they would have no idea what I’m talking about.