Michael, this is why I posted a gift link. The article is not paywalled. I guarantee that it’s worth your time. If not, I owe you a pint if you’re ever in my neck of the woods – heck, I’ll buy you a pint regardless.
Michael, this is why I posted a gift link. The article is not paywalled. I guarantee that it’s worth your time. If not, I owe you a pint if you’re ever in my neck of the woods – heck, I’ll 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 (à la Elizabeth Warren) can yield a free market – 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.
Michael, this is why I posted a gift link. The article is not paywalled. I guarantee that it’s worth your time. If not, I owe you a pint if you’re ever in my neck of the woods – heck, I’ll 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 (à la Elizabeth Warren) can yield a free market – 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.