• retiredminion@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      It’s very clear that our cultural differences will have us continuing to talk past each other. You see this as free market, I see it as mob action against free market.

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        11 months ago

        Then you’ll be wrong per defintion…

        Your free market needs government protection, then its not a free market…

        Its not that we have different opinions, which we have. Its that you dont underdtand what a free market is. In a true free market the negotiation of the work market happens between the employer and the worker, which is the case for sweden and not for the US (i assume you’re american).

        Its not a free market if the governemt deals with the employer in the place of the worker…

        And with a real free market strikes/boycotts are a tool that workers can use.

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          11 months ago

          I have no doubt that is your belief.

          I see “rule of law” as the guiding structure over mob action. If there is no baseline of law then whoever gathers the largest mob runs over everyone else, as seems to be the case in Sweden.

          “Free Market” is a term that generally refers to the economics of cost and trade, not to mob extortion and enforced conformity.

          It’s ironic that you refer to the negotiation between employer and worker when that is precisely what is not happening in Sweden.