• Ice@lemmy.world
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      56 minutes ago

      A lot of the benefits people associate with capitalism require a free market. The US problem is that the megacorps have gotten sufficiently powerful to abolish that free market through regularory (and legal) capture, enabling entrenched monopolies.

    • Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Doesn’t work when people don’t get to choose not to take it when it gets too expensive! That thing that capitalists always forget about: necessities.

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Every time someone talks about you being supposedly free to choose where to work they should get instant diarrhea. Let alone medicine of course, that’s a hard dependence.

        Nobody is truly free without proper UBI and free healthcare and good public transport. Only then true freedom can exist.