Free markets is what we need, not “capitalism”. Conservatives should favor free markets over “big business” any day.
Bingo.
All my life I was trained to like Capitalism. Hey, it’s the opposite of Communism, right? It’s what American is all about, right?
Turns out — not so much. Capitalism, rightly understood, only exists when Big Government colludes with Big Business. All the regulations, the tax policy, the tariffs, etc. are written by lobbyists to help Government get bigger and help business get bigger. The old “Military-Industrial Complex”? It’s not just “military”: it’s “government”. That joining of forces is what strangles the Middle Class.
With an actual Free Market, you have actual people running actual businesses. That’s where the Middle Class comes from.
I’ll support Free Markets any day of the week. But not Capitalism. I say that Capitalism and Socialism all inevitably end up as Fascism, which is what we have here in the USA.
There’s no problem with “big business”, nor is there any real threat from monopolies either... Unless they are government-enforced. A natural monopoly in a free market is either efficiently deploying resources to provide value, or it is not and will be outmaneuvered by a startup competitor. It’s not the size of the company that matters as much as the barriers to entry they erect with the help of government. Drop the artificial barriers and most if not all monopolies are temporary.
So you’re saying free markets are possible without capital?
I’m guessing you think “capitalism” (your quotation marks, not mine) differs from captial-based economic systems.
Oh, yes, Free markets. England was a nation of tea shop, millinery, and tobacco shop when Hitler invaded Poland. And England’s shop owners almost got their fannies kicked because the nation had little heavy industry—corporations, Mac.