Free trade with a reasonable safety net for those at the bottom. The safety net also ends up acting as a minimum standard, why pay your entire wage to a landlord for a slum when the state will provide you with better accommodation for less?
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No they’re not.
Look around history over the global and democracies consistently are he most powerful because of the transparency that roots out corruption and the freedoms that allow scientific progress and capitalism that allows for strong economy.
Now before lemmies start down voting: yes, capitalism has its issues and it needs to be tempered by strong laws or you get whatever the hell the US is, but in principle allowing free trade is a huge boon to a country and it’s citizens
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Capitalism is just exploitation of those with no capital. If we really cant have strong economy without that then might as well not have one.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah no, that is not what capitalism is. It’s a side effect of capitalism that can happen when not curbed with good laws, but it’s not capitalism.
In the same way I can say that communism is all about suppression, brainwashing, and murder because that’s what Russia and China have been about for a long, long time
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Still, by definition it means those with capital make the rules
vvilld@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Obligatory correction that capitalism =/= free markets and free markets =/= capitalism. Markets existed long before capitalism and will exist long after it.
Capitalism very specifically describes the economic relationships between owners of capital and workers. Without the exploitative relationship, it’s not capitalism.