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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
Wait... Huh?
I'm starting to think Jillian is Deadman's Anarchist, yet equally paranoid brother...
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What he's trying to say is that capitalism can't be trusted to be held in check. I had a huge long post earlier on examples on where mixed economies failed to make capitalism "safe" for people, using a lot of examples such as "Increasing minimum wage increases the odds of a company outsourcing", and it just got too long and I was too cranky to edit it down.
A big one I learned about recently was that even Sweden, which is one of the most egalitarian countries in the world and fits the bill of mixed economy, had to criminalize prostitution again because they just couldn't guarantee that women and children would not be exploited as a result, in fact when it was legal and regulated, there was an increase of foreign women being trafficked to fill the niche of sex worker slavery. So they had to criminalize the act of buying sex but to make things fair to sex workers, its not illegal to sell sex. As long as there is a profit to be made there are people who will want to take that opportunity. One of the criticisms against anarchy was that people are too greedy to make it work, when thats actually the big problem with capitalism, it makes all of us greedy and willing to compete with each other, and work for wages that are a fraction of what profit and value we create.
Are mixed economies better than straight up capitalism? Absolutely. But they still fail to make things egalitarian and classless.