Michael, this is why I posted a gift link. The article is not paywalled. I guarantee that itтАЩs worth your time. If not, I owe you a pint if youтАЩre ever in my neck of the woods тАУ heck, IтАЩll buy you a pint regardless.
I agree that it's an excellent essay. Of course, Paleo is right that it takes as its premise that free markets should be taken for granted as a pillar of American society. But it's unfortunately too much to expect corporate media in the U.S. to give a platform to socialists who truly advocate socialism. And nowadays, even not kowtowing to a wannabe dictator in advance of the election was too much to expect. I have to wonder if Bezos would even allow this kind of op-ed to be printed next year.
The monopolistic capitalism we increasingly have today is anathema to the free market. Only well-regulated capitalism (├а la Elizabeth Warren) can yield a free market тАУ that is my argument as a Scandinavian and a social democrat (a term that is strangely out of fashion on this side of the Atlantic).
I love Warren. But I can foresee a time when ownership of the means of production to a large extent needs to be controlled democratically, not in private hands, and that's when almost everything is computerized and robotized.
Yes and yes.
Ok, I'm not going to easily read the entirety of a presumably paywalled essay.
Michael, this is why I posted a gift link. The article is not paywalled. I guarantee that itтАЩs worth your time. If not, I owe you a pint if youтАЩre ever in my neck of the woods тАУ heck, IтАЩll buy you a pint regardless.
I didn't realize. I'll read it.
I agree that it's an excellent essay. Of course, Paleo is right that it takes as its premise that free markets should be taken for granted as a pillar of American society. But it's unfortunately too much to expect corporate media in the U.S. to give a platform to socialists who truly advocate socialism. And nowadays, even not kowtowing to a wannabe dictator in advance of the election was too much to expect. I have to wonder if Bezos would even allow this kind of op-ed to be printed next year.
The monopolistic capitalism we increasingly have today is anathema to the free market. Only well-regulated capitalism (├а la Elizabeth Warren) can yield a free market тАУ that is my argument as a Scandinavian and a social democrat (a term that is strangely out of fashion on this side of the Atlantic).
I love Warren. But I can foresee a time when ownership of the means of production to a large extent needs to be controlled democratically, not in private hands, and that's when almost everything is computerized and robotized.