Message from @Timo)))
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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
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
In everything there are winners and losers, but you have to make it so you can win or lose to make it work at all
Try making a casino in which you always leave without winning or losing
That's neat rhetoric, but the problem is that neither the government or the dindu business man are actually held responsible to the workers.
I can pretend the government is democratic
The businessman is absolutely more hurt by the loss than a government worker
I don't care. I'm selfish and I want an economy with organized labor and democracy in the workplace.
Well you can get it in venezuela and cuba
I can get it here too.
Good luck, I don't think you can
Unless you go work for the post office, which are notoriously slow
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