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by Red_Leaves_Flyy 1190 days ago
>“The unbridled, competitive free markets that the Right cherishes don’t exist today. They are a myth.” Furthermore, “The Left attacks the grotesque capitalism we see today, as if that were the true manifestation of the essence of capitalism rather than the distorted version it has become.”

https://www.cato.org/regulation/fall-2019/myth-capitalism

I’ll posit that this am academic flight of fancy or distinction without a material difference. The fact is there’s no meaningful competition in the American economy, whether it’s called capitalism or socialism for the rich and debt peonage for the rest.