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Economy

lonely bird

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1. OK

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 04:20 PM

Apr 18

Two things…

Minsky said that welfare was not the way to go. Rather the government should be the employer of last resort.

There is no such thing as a free market. Markets require structure in the form of laws and regulations to function.

Besides that I do agree with what he said regarding human capital. Unfortunately, the RW in this country would not stand for that because Libs might be helped. They will literally destroy themselves just to “own the Libs”.

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