| sc94597 said: 1. Great way to start an argument. Marginalize another person's views! 2. Is it? Handing priveleges to large-scale private companies is not a "free-market" that is just government handouts. Allowing people to privatise the common resources through labor is the proper way. Europe is becoming more corporatist, not more laissez-faire. 3. People used to say the same thing about education, but somehow there are plenty of places with a focus on private education that exceed the outcomes of the current public systems here in the U.S. Practically everything managed by the federal state, or states here goes to ruin. So even if the free-market isn't that great with providing certain services, I really can't see how the government has been? Just look at the Veteran affairs system for how well public hospitals would work here, the disrepair of state roads for how well they've managed roads (despite having tons of revenue to do so), and the public opinion demolishing alternative energy solutions like nuclear and state taxes on clean solutions like solar disuading people from using better energy solutions than fossil fuels. 4. LOL, you mean the type of command economies that have failed a billion times already? The types that are failing currently in Venezuela and Brasil? Don't make me laugh. Command-economies can't even get the people fed, how are they suppose to solve these other things that are supposedly outside of the abilities of markets? The economic calculation problem just prevents command-economies from working. No person or set of people are smarter at determining the supply and demand curves of a good than the emergent orders caused by billions of individuals voluntarily exchanging - in other words "The Market" is. 5. Cool, at least we have some common ground. Unfortunately, militarism is the good most purchased by states that attempt "command economies." The reason why? Because "command economies" rely on a presupposition of the use of force by the state. Just think of what the word "command" means. And the mililtary is the means by which they enforce their "commands." |
They don't hand out priviliges, they loosen the regulations and taxes bit by bit and this "happens" to mostly benifit the large corporations. Capitalism always has a tendancy towards monopoly. The problem with public funding in the US is already well documented. It's hard to organize good public schools when you count in part on private schools (which are much more expensive then public schools). I you look in Europe, most public schools manage great. Command economies can work great and even held up the fast pace of the free market economies. I took a good look at your "economic calculation problem" and I had to conclude it a bunch of bogus. Command economy failed in the USSR for well defined reasons. Failure of development of computing power to calculate an ever more complex economy, corruption in the political apparatus and a disproportionate military spending.
If you want to take a good look at militarism, I suggest you take a look at your military industrial complex. Why do you think american weapons are on nearly all sides of conflicts in the middle east?
Venezuela and Brazil are not command economies. Venezuela has a lot of social correction programs, but it's in essence still a free-market economy.
