Message from @Timo)))

But it's going to take some really good arguments to convince me it's (((merely a coincidence))) that the freer markets just happen to make a country more prosperous

Deleted User

2017-07-21 20:14:51 UTC

>more prosperous

Deleted User

2017-07-21 20:14:59 UTC

>stagnate after 30 years

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:15:00 UTC

It is compared to its neighbours

Deleted User

2017-07-21 20:15:03 UTC

🤔

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:15:28 UTC

>drive out foreign investors
>a good idea

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:19:57 UTC

Going to quote here:

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:21:02 UTC

The 1973 coup destroyed the power of the working class in the political and economic systems. Its union and party leaders were tortured, assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled. Political parties were banned and unions made virtually illegal. The dictatorship introduced a "flexible" labor system that left workers with the formal right of individual contract, but stripped them of any right to organize and bargain collectively. Power shifted to the employers in the mines, factories, fields, and ports. The dictatorship spared no form of state intervention to crush workers' power.

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:21:22 UTC

Forbidding trade unions is NOT part of a free market solution

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:21:30 UTC

Voluntary trade unions are fine

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:21:47 UTC

trade unions that get extra privileges from the state are not

Timo)))

2017-07-21 20:22:05 UTC

This article presents it as if Milton Friedman would agree with such measures, he didn't