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by TeMPOraL 1005 days ago
The US GOV aren't idiots, either.

A car is in fact a good example here - specifically, an ICE car. It's a contraption powered by repeatedly pouring explodium into a chamber and making it go off, then using the boom to both spin wheels and pull in more explodium for another run. More explodium means more power means faster car means better, right? On the contrary, an ICE needs just right amount of explodium, and is designed to ensure that; pour more, it'll stop and/or set itself on fire.

Same is with the market. Let it run completely free, and it'll collapse into bunch of tribes led by warlords, producing little more than suffering and death at scale.

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> tribes led by warlords, producing little more than suffering and death at scale

...this is literally already the case, except they're our warlords instead of chinese warlords:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson#Controver...

just so there's no mistaking it: these are american companies

> Let it run completely free, and it'll collapse

why doesn't it collapse?

>> Let it run completely free, and it'll collapse

> why doesn't it collapse?

Because the government aren't idiots and aren't letting it run completely free.

> aren't letting it run completely free

but they are? that's what the links demonstrate (you do have read them to get that point though).