Forum Post: Is the Market Free?
Posted 11 years ago on June 28, 2012, 9:31 a.m. EST by agkaiser
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from Fredericksburg, TX
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If the market doesn't allow capitalists [the 1%] to play it can't be said to be free. It has allowed them and now they own it and it can't be said to be free. Is this really a paradox or is it a symptom of cultural schizophrenia? Is there a difference between that sort of mental illness and Orwell's “doublethink?” If not schizophrenic, are we at least paranoid and delusional to believe that free market capitalism is not an oxymoron?
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Is this a joke? I don't think so. Our government and ourselves are bound by debt to those with whom the wealth is concentrated, the 1%. The economy we depend on for the material goods we need to live is controlled abstractly from Wall St. There is no freedom in the marketplace.
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