To what extent should govt meddle in the free market?

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[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The state should direct the economy. It should act to ensure no family or individual accumulates too much wealth. It should crush any corporation that tries to interfere the slightest in politics. It should regulate the market so as to prohibit it from catering to society's worst vices.

For example, a total ban on trans fats, high-sugar drinks, drugs, corn syrup, endocrine disrupting food and matrials(like plastic). It should also safeguard the environment and strictly punish destructive practices like dumping chemical waste into rivers.

Lastly, it should cultivate national technical and industrial skills. That means producing as much of your goods locally as possible. No outsourcing. And it should also safeguard national wealth. That means not allowing rootless international corporations to mine your resources, or allow foreign nationals to buy up your land or assets.

Aside from these, the economy can to an extent be left to its own devices. I'm personally opposed to the welfare state as it breeds dysgenics and encourages degeneracy(single mothers for example).

[–]Richard_Parker 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is precisely the correct response. A truly free market allows for:

-child labor - recreational drug use (cocaine would create insatiable demand if permitted to) - porn - prostitution - junk food

As it is, socalled free market captialism has allowed much of this, as well as shitty rap music, all sorts of things that should just not be permitted.

If so called conservatism had understood this, so much of what ails would not be in play. But society has been asleep at the wheel for a century and now the radical left dominates everything. Whoops.

[–]NayenezganiNot alt-right 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Worker cooperatives can co-exist with a market economy. Most of the successful ones (e.g. Mondragon) are operated by ethnic Europeans and tend to have superior longevity and productivity. Might be something that certain people want to get involved in, if they want to build a self-sufficient community within a broader hostile society. And in different circumstances, state guidance will complement this form of business organization.