So at least be proud you aren't worse 😂

I was feeling really stupid for a moment there until I realized that the evidence literally points towards free markets working

Wasn't Bill Clinton the one who passed the Bill of Telecommunications?

Perhaps it had an effect 🤔

Just a theory, tho

Literally all of these countries are free markets that have this

I'm googling it and I'm internally laughing my head off

I'm angry as hell right now.

Communists don't have brains, thats why

lol

The free market encourages competition

Any government intervention is **bad**

People voted with their wallets for monopolies

Singapore
Qatar
Hong Kong
Japan
New Zealand
Latvia
Sweden

They are literally all free market countries

Every last one of them

Sweden has a big welfare, though.

Not sure about the rest of them

Sweden is also 9th on the list

Yeah

I can't find anything on the UAE being a free market but

This is insane

singapore is wack

What is the US' obsession with duopolies and oligopolies? Like... instead of having 10 choices, most of us only have around 2 or 3 on literally anything

What's up with that? 🤔

No, I do not blame the free market, it can't be that.

Maybe the market isn't free enough?

^

According to Wikipedia, Singapore is the most open economy in the world, is the 3rd least corrupt, and has the lowest tax rates

Yet they are leading in fiber optic cables when compared to the rest of the world - cables that are considered to be too expensive for the United States to implement

And yet somehow that is evidence that the free market doesn't work

lmfao

See, a city state is better than a big ass federal state 😎

Lol

Singapore sounds cool. Is there a catch? Are gay people lynched?

not literally

but their gun laws are just...

ew

it's also really quite authoritarian as well

Yeah
Still

they fuckin banned gum

and it's a surveillance state