Chile's economy has been entirely propped up by governments though. Mostly it's own and America.

Their strongest industry is metal exports I think.

Not at all, the government was tyrannical on all points except economical

I didn't say tyrannical

There was a specific effort in the late 70's to make it a free market, not completely of course

they still had their state corporations but compared to the rest of south america it was

Well whatever they've two major industries that are talked about constantly.

Transportation and copper.

Their copper is managed by the government, and has been though the regime changes.

Yes, but so does Venezuela and Brazil, immensely rich countries in theory, poor in reality

Their trucking and whatnot has always been mostly private.

Utter failure, but logistically despite this the Chilean government has been able to manage to keep people fed under both Allende and Pinochet.

Even now

I never claimed they were a pure free market, but they did slash out a lot of the nonsense in that time

and it shows

What point are you trying to make?

All I'm saying is that the government intervened heavily to make sure the economy worked in a favorable way.

That the free market is better at meeting peoples needs than government

how so?

Not heavily at all compared to other countries

Government propping up businesses that can't stand on their own for example

an absolute money pit

A government owned company that makes money is no problem but most are not and suffer for it

Having a business being government owned doesn't mean much if it still is organized like a capitalist company.

I mean for a centralized industry it works great

A government business will never be organized like a capitalistic company, simply by the fact that it cannot fail.

Like for mining or transportation.

Worst(best) case scenario it gets sold

What kikeshit are you talking about boy?

Good reply

Everything is "government owned" in America

Not at all

If you don't pay your taxes you don't get to keep your stuff.

That's something else from actually making the decisions in that business

The fact is that no one will make better decision for a company than the man who has a risk to lose it all or win it all

are you sure about that?

Government backed businesses never fail and for it it makes bad decisions

Absolutely

Why would a government worker who uses other peoples money make better decisions?

I don't expect either to be particularly great.

Doesn't have to be great, just better