Originally posted by: CME25
But really, isn't all of the recent government intervention the opposite idea of capitalism and free market?
There are many 'useful myths' which, by being popular among the voters who supprt is desired, provide license when that's useful, and are ignored when it's not.
Really, pretty much all you need are a complete set for all the cycles, and you can use them to justify any policy you like, the equivalent of having 'look before you leap' and 'he who hesitates is lost' both available so that whatever you want to do, you can say there's an 'old saying' why it's a good idea.
Sometimes, there's money to be made in bad ways, and people who want to make it. They can't very well just say the truth straight out, in a democracy, and even in a completely dictatorship it's not a good idea to, because a more complacent population is cheaper to govern than an outraged one.
Now, it's possible for the government to regulate excessively and'/or badly, and the public commonly has a bad reaction to that notion. So it's a useful myth.
All you need to do next is to take the bad way to make money you want to to, and launch a broad campaign having no mention of the specifics you want, about 'that damn government regulation', and quietly have the provisions you want relaxes included in some feel-good de-regulation bill, with lots of talk about the 'unharnasses power of the market' creating wealth for everyone, appealing to the greed of every idiot who can't be bothered to learn the actual result has been that for the last 25 years, it has been the unprecedented case that instead of the normal condition where the economy's growth flows to all groups somewhat proportionally, for the first time all the growth - which has been sizable - has gone to the very top (zero after inflation to the bottom 80%, a few percent to the 80%-95%, on up to several hundred pecent to the top 0.01%+).
How incredibly effective is that? It's the equivalent of a robber, wearing a black mask and black and white striped clothing, knocking on the door, announcing that he's the police doing a legitimate action, and then walking around the house in front of the residents collecitng their belongings while they watch and thank him, and when someone in the family says "he's a ROBBER!!", the rest of the family telling them to shut the hell up and stop hating the police. It's just remarkabe to watch the power of the propaganda.
I'm not sure if the robber could then take his pleasures with the woman of the house while the man approved, but judging by the recent history, it seems likely.
This forum is filled with people who are the unwitting servents of the propaganda, the interests of the powerful, parroting the ideology.
They aren't horses led to water who refuse to drink - I throw them in the ocean sometimes, and watch them float their way back to sand, not even wet.
I've posted the statistic above about the growth going to the top dozens of times, and seen it have ANY effect on a SINGLE person who was not aware of the issue exactly zero times.
The stastistic SCREAMS OUT what's going on, but so many are oblvious - they just keep paroting nonsense about 'the right to get rich' and 'class war!!11!' and sure that they're somehow defending the policies that will allow them to become vastly wealthy too, if they just defend whtever the wealthy people want, not aware that that's precisely what's going to prevent their acquiring a lot.
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