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by chii 1837 days ago
> Perhaps we should rethink that?

hasn't it already been tried, and shown to fail?

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There's a universe of possibilities between unrestrained globalised hyper-financialised capitalism, and murdering people who wear glasses and making everybody work on agriculture a la Cambodia.

Ideas like Georgism allow us to retain the most useful features of a market economy while taming its brutal, violent, undemocratic features. That's the premise of market socialism in general.