To see this, suppose Bezos talked instead about how the editorial staff needed to prioritize egalitarianism. There are plenty of people who share this value. You can find a great many manifestations of this value in our society. It's embedded into our constitution and legislation. But does that mean that the newspaper would be wrong to defend egalitarianism?
What's meant by "it"?
• 77,302,580 voted for this administration (49.8%)
• 77,935,722 voted against this administration (50.2%)
Source: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
The Green's usually are identified as being libertarian socialism anyways, so it would not be a horrible cooperation to hang out with Libertarians and discuss how to make environmentalism; nonviolence; and social justice work with civil liberties; non-interventionism; and laissez-faire capitalism.
And then they could state that they're not a spoiler, since they draw voters relatively equally from what might otherwise be Democrats and Republicans.
They don't want a free market. They want to be free to control the market.
2. Big corporations actually like, encourage, and write the regulations because they form a moat for which smaller competitors can't cross (how is this news to this website?).
The lesson is don't let corporations write regulations, not "obviously regulations are always bad".
> They want to be free to control the market
1. One of the tell-tale signs of regulatory capture is when the Government's efforts do little to control/limit a corporation. Like when they end up relegated to 'middleman' between the corporation and consumer.
2. Regulations that serve as a 'moat' against competition is the carrion call for free markets. Capitalism thrives on competition. If the only competition they face is what they allow, then they have no incentive to innovate and create value, only maximize the value they already have.
The counterpoint to #1 doesn't mean that we don't need to trim the fat... but there is a MAJOR difference between what businesses and the average–joe consider 'fat'.
That is what I think is so scary about this, there is no chance Beelzebub's idea of a free market matches my own.
you do realize there's no such thing as a carrion call?
a clarion is a trumpet, and a clarion call is a call for urgency
I suppose with crows ("here's the thing...") you could get a carrion caw
Which ones exactly?