Of course the party that focuses on #FreeMarket and #commerce is completely fumbling the bag for so many people.

People who #freight and #ship are invariably so screwed that it's not even funny. There's probably various mini wars over shifts and timeslots, because a lot of #family #economies are gonna be hit - hard.

But go on. Tell me how the #republicans are concerned about #economy.

‘Tariff shockwave’ leads to collapse in ocean container bookings - FreightWaves
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-shockwave-leads-to-collapse-in-ocean-container-bookings

Pointing out that we've been #exploiting #Chinese #WageSlavery is NOT - I repeat - NOT dick riding the #CPC - or felating #China as a whole.

In fact, it should be #market #theory at this point, that no nation can compete against the cost cutting of either indirect or direct #slavery, that the idea of #FreeMarket existing under the same conditions is absurd.

Why did we do this? To avoid #union demands in the #50s and #60s, by tapping into an unethical #LaborMarket of an #authoritarian #regime.

This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Introducing the Invisible Ideology (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myH3gg5o0t0

And from the [not] #freemarket annals: 
"And of course, patients don't get to merge to monopoly (that's what governments are for, and we know how Blue Cross feels about single payer care). Workers don't get to merge to monopoly either (that's what unions are for, and no one hates a union more than a health care monopolist)."
PS: CEO says "authorization never says we’re going to pay you."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/12/pre-authorization/#is-not-a-guarantee-of-payment

"What we saw in the UK in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher's government was just how quickly the free market transitioned from a radical idea into the new reality. Then before long it became what many assumed was the system that would last forever."

#UKPol #Economy #FreeMarket #Privatisation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gey6pvddo

Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?

Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.

Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.

Very #freemarket. So cool. Anyways, the ticket price of my self measuring - I mean self mastering conference is about $5,000 a ticket.

Gimme dat #SiliconValley #narcissism money! I'll even throw in a yoga mat for your concubine.

"Talking about rational efficiency becomes a way of avoiding talking about what the efficiency is actually for."
~ David Graeber, 2015, The Utopia of Rules
#DavidGraeber #freemarket

I'm all for Libertarianism for people who want it.

Libertarianism all the way through to the bottom, tho. Just like Nature intended.

Wassat? You can't outrun the bear because you fell down and now your knee is messed up?

That's a damn shame. Well #FreeMarket you know?

What is free enterprise? Who will keep it free?
#FreeMarket
https://www.financialpoise.com/what-is-free-enterprise/

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/inheriting-is-becoming-nearly-as-important-as-working

https://archive.ph/Hg11b

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society.

"People in advanced economies stand to inherit around $6trn this year—about 10% of GDP, up from around 5% on average in a selection of rich countries during the middle of the 20th century. As a share of output, annual inheritance flows have doubled in France since the 1960s, and nearly trebled in Germany since the 1970s."

"For supporters of free markets, the rise of the new inheritocracy should be deeply disturbing. For a start, it creates a rentier class that faces a series of bad incentives."

‘Massive encroachment’: #Bezos has directed the #WashingtonPost opinion pages to promote ‘personal #liberties & #freemarket,’ noting that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.’

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

Jeff Bezos’ Directive for #WashingtonPost #Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html

I'm canceling my subscription to the Washington Post. There is no way I'm continuing to pay if' it's just becoming a mouthpiece for #Bezos 's very peculiar notion of #liberty and #freemarket and a propaganda site in favor of #Trunp and his cronies.
#democracydiesinobscurity
#Fascism #autoritarisme #capitalism #TechnoFascism

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html