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Alo Japan<p><a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1330507/trumps-tariffs-and-japan-deal-could-encourage-toyota-to-move-jobs-out-of-u-s/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alojapan.com/1330507/trumps-ta</span><span class="invisible">riffs-and-japan-deal-could-encourage-toyota-to-move-jobs-out-of-u-s/</span></a> Trump’s tariffs and Japan deal could encourage Toyota to move jobs out of U.S. <a href="https://channels.im/tags/automobiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automobiles</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BlueCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueCollar</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/imports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imports</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapanNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapaneseNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> Over the past few decades, Japan-based automaker Toyota has spent billions of dollars to expand its manufacturing and assembly plants in the United States. Those plants now employ over 64,000 people across North Am</p>
Bytes Europe<p>Trump undermines his own South Korea deal with new 25 percent tariffs <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1174142/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1174142/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthKorea</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“Asked about people putting bumper stickers on their <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Teslas</span></a> declaring they bought it before “Elon was crazy”, Musk said: “There are also people buying it because Elon’s crazy, or however they may view it. Yes, we’ve lost some sales, perhaps, on the left, but we’ve gained them on the right.”</p><p>Musk was *visibly shaken* when discussing the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a>’ campaign against him and his cars, saying they were “evil” and on the wrong side of history.</p><p>“What’s wrong with these people? *I’ve not harmed anyone*. So, something needs to be done about them. *A number of them are going to prison*, and they deserve it.” Asked whether he took the attacks <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/personally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personally</span></a>, he said: “Yes.”</p><p>Free market forces in action ☺️</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smith</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markets</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/YGhkg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/YGhkg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/bruised-and-angry-elon-musk-says-he-will-cut-back-on-political-spending-20250521-p5m0vm.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/world/north-amer</span><span class="invisible">ica/bruised-and-angry-elon-musk-says-he-will-cut-back-on-political-spending-20250521-p5m0vm.html</span></a>&gt; (paywall)</p>
Richard Rathe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>susankayequinn</span></a></span> </p><p>"it's pollution in our lungs &amp; exploitation of people &amp; burning of the planet &amp; degradation of civil society"</p><p>Economists refer to these as "externalities"... often not hidden (air pollution in LA is pretty obvious) as much as unaccounted for...</p><p>"Externalities often occur when the production or consumption of a product or service's private price equilibrium cannot reflect the true costs or benefits of that product or service for society as a whole.... since resources can be better allocated, externalities are an example of market failure."</p><p>👉 <a href="https://c.im/tags/MarketFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarketFailure</span></a> 👈 is the key concept. So called <a href="https://c.im/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> are often incomplete, because not all of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/StakeHolders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StakeHolders</span></a> are at the bargaining table.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External</span><span class="invisible">ity</span></a></p><p>Even the oft quoted-out-of-context "libertarian" economist <a href="https://c.im/tags/FriedrichHayek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FriedrichHayek</span></a> allowed that there were some areas of economic activity that could not be addressed by free or open markets... <a href="https://c.im/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> to name just two.</p><p> [Graphic is from an article by Patrick Miner et al 2024.]</p>
Strypey<p>An explosion, when regulated, becomes an engine. The same is true of markets.</p><p>An explosion, unregulated, is a weapon of mass destruction. The same is true of markets.</p><p>When Adam Smith talked about "free markets", he meant free of economic rents (paying people to own things), not free of regulation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AdamSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdamSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2006203/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2006203/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> How egg prices became the symbol of Poland’s transition to freedom <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Aktualno%C5%9Bci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aktualności</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EasterEgg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasterEgg</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/eggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/polska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polska</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2000945/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2000945/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs is stalling the economy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/imports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imports</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SmallBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a></p>
Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au<p>Anyone else notice how quiet the neoliberals have been lately?</p><p>For decades, conservative fans of FA Hayek and Milton Friedman have told us that free trade and free markets are their core principles.</p><p>That we should let the invisible hand of the market decide.</p><p>That any government intervention, no matter how well intended, distorts the markets.</p><p>That government intervention in markets is socialism.</p><p>That governments shouldn't pick winners.</p><p>That taxes are bad.</p><p>That if there's a choice between government intervention to stop global warming from fossil fuel pollution or free trade, they'll gladly pick free trade.</p><p>Right back to Reagan and Thatcher, they swore these were their core principles.</p><p>So.</p><p>An American president intervening in markets by imposing arbitrary protectionist tariff taxes should have been a hard no.</p><p>A political candidate openly campaigning on doing this should have met stiff opposition from the invisible hand's true believers.</p><p>If a true believer in these neoliberal principles (as Rupert Murdoch has claimed to be) owned a news channel (such as Fox News), one would expect outrage at this blatant rejection of free markets and free trade.</p><p>So where are all the neoliberal think tanks? Economists? Politicians?</p><p>Why the silence?</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@SharkAttak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SharkAttak</span></a></span> A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.</p><p>If profit derived only from <em>wealth</em> as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.</p><p>But profit is in fact an <em>accounting</em> artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.</p><p><em>Profit</em> is based on <em>realised costs and revenues</em>, which means that <em>any</em> trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.</p><p>That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets <em>where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets</em>. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing <em>both</em> supplier <em>and</em> consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.</p><p>Markets <em>can</em> be effective, but generally only where there is a <em>balance</em> of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of <em>small scale</em> commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within <em>Wealth</em> and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).</p><p>As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to <em>that</em> A.H.), see: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Church" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande</span><span class="invisible">r_Hamilton_Church</span></a>.</p><p>There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in <em>What Is To Be Done</em>, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F_(Tolstoy)" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_</span><span class="invisible">to_Be_Done%3F_(Tolstoy)</span></a> <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-what-is-to-be-done" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theanarchistlibrary.org/librar</span><span class="invisible">y/leo-tolstoy-what-is-to-be-done</span></a>.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gotterdammerung</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm pretty sure <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/EconomicFallacies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicFallacies</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/equivocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equivocation</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ProfitVsWealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProfitVsWealth</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AlexanderHamiltonChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexanderHamiltonChurch</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/accounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accounting</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/LeoTolstoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoTolstoy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/WhatIsToBeDone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatIsToBeDone</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/WhatThenMustWeDo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatThenMustWeDo</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> said on Wed he would mandate the paper’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/opinions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opinions</span></a> section to focus on supporting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PersonalLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalLiberties</span></a>, saying those pieces w/opposing views can “be left to be published by others.”</p><p>The move was rebuked by current &amp; former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> staffers, though it was praised in a trolling post by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s WH.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartyBaron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MartyBaron</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthEstate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ViewPointDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ViewPointDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1836649/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1836649/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Trump’s tariff threats created economic uncertainty and harmed the economy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Canad%C3%A1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canadá</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/M%C3%A9xico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>México</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/STEELINDUSTRY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEELINDUSTRY</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Radical_EgoCom</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@rockyd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rockyd</span></a></span> <br>You seem to have made up your mind about that. That’s ok but I beg to disagree (I don’t want to fight over it though). IMO, capitalism is about ‘owning the means of production’ and by definition also means an individual ‘owns the fruit of his labor’ (ie. capital). Hence blaming ‘capitalism’ for all ills in modern society is not constructive nor accurate. This is why we need other terms to describe the particular ‘parts’ and ‘implementations’ of capitalism in order for capital to serve society and not the othr way around. </p><p>I am happy to discuss these but will not respond to denialism or ideological bias. A reasoned argument will get my attention though. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/corporatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporatism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deregulation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Reaganism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reaganism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Thatcherism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcherism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NeoLiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoLiberalism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®For the capitalists, the affluent, and wealthy with incentives to maintain a healthy market economy
Ecologia Digital<p>"I wonder what happened to turn John’s [<a href="https://mato.social/tags/Gruber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gruber</span></a>] attitude…<br>The <a href="https://mato.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a>… does not allow big companies to “own” markets because <a href="https://mato.social/tags/freemarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freemarkets</span></a> (in the EU’s eyes) are good, and privately owned ones that allow big companies to stop being capitalists and act like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/feudal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudal</span></a> lords are bad. Facebook, Apple, and the rest have been doing this in digital for a long time, and the EU has decided it’s going to stop."<br><a href="https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/w</span><span class="invisible">hat-a-difference-four-years-makes/</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"Capitalists hated rents. Adam Smith, capitalism’s most important thinkfluencer, railed against rents, calling for ‘free markets'. For Smith and his contemporaries, a market was ‘free’ if it was free from rents – not free from regulation."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoryDoctorow</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct</span><span class="invisible">orow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@cass_m" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cass_m</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/EconomicRents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicRents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AdamSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdamSmith</span></a></p>
Jan Penfrat<p>&quot;Today, German Chancellor <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/OlafScholz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OlafScholz</span></a> is expected to (...) announce a €9.9 billion <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/subsidy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>subsidy</span></a> for the <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/microprocessor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>microprocessor</span></a> company, so that it sets up a plant in the German town of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Magdeburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Magdeburg</span></a>.&quot;</p><p>&quot;To put it bluntly, every German household will contribute €240 to do something that’s traditionally a core task of private enterprise — investing in new factories to meet demand.&quot;</p><p>Via <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Politico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Politico</span></a><br /><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PeakCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeakCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/freemarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>freemarkets</span></a></p>