Companies don’t need to send you to prisons, there’s always other customers, and most of the big companies form into bigger and bigger ones that own more and more industry until avoiding them is literally impossible, meaning you’d have to starve or lack that entire service in order to avoid that company, essentially making your dependence on them absolute and immovable. If you try to break those companies up as one person, they’ll mercilessly drown you in court fees, counter-responses in court, and often influence the judge by themselves. Money is an extremely powerful thing, and they possess a lot of it in some of the most cunning ways in history. It is not the most obvious thing that is the greatest danger, but the thing that is most capable of influencing you without you ever noticing it, hence why corporations and the system of capitalism itself is one of the most extreme dangerous forces out there, because it can simply buy up the tool that is government, turn the courts against you, ramp up its prices, and indirectly cause thousands of deaths with a single price change, and never be held accountable. If a business defaults for a bit or the stock market crashes, they’ll blame government or say it’s “just business” while millions suffer and thousands die from poverty without anyone noticing it. That’s the power these corporations hold, and it’s arsenal is more varied and complex than government can ever know, which is why I have greater hatred for corporations and capitalism than for government.
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of fascism. Fascism is when big business that would not in a free market have political power, use the criminal cartel we call "government" to plunder their fellow citizens and annihilate competition. How do they do this? Take for example California's "minimum wage" of $20. What that does is it outlaws all jobs under $20 an hour. It creates unemployment and poverty. But it also annihilates emerging small businesses, who can't afford to pay their employees such ludicrously high wages, and inflicts massive losses on medium sized businesses. But the Big Businesses know how to adjust to these circumstances with ease, finding ways to automate their operations and replace human labor with machine labor. In a free market, they would not do that without major scrutiny and outcry from the public that would inflict monetary losses on them. So big businesses are using this as an excuse to fire people, especially white Christian males, Read more
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Fascism is about the merger of corporate and state power into monopolized industries that were supposedly to be controlled by government (in their extremely short and weak theory), but instead enable one another and turn the powers of economic and political imperialism jnwards on their own society, creating what is essentially capitalism in decay. Cronyism is a step towards that process, but the destruction of cronyism does nothing to address the innate problems of capitalism itself choosing to move towards this cronyism. We would have to fight back against cronyism using government if we don… Read more
A truly Keynesian approach would actually be *MORE* conservative than what we have now – John Maynard Keynes was by today's standards a moderate conservative, and in his works advocating for shrinking the government debt by cutting spending on unnecessary things, though he did support the Public Works Jobs Creation Fallacy and other economic absurdities. Keynesian Economics, Monetarist Economics, and Marxist Economics have all been tried and found lacking. The only thing that we've never tried is Austrian Economics, which can account for every depression and recession in Ameri… Read more
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Keynes himself was a socialist, his economic views are not nearly as conservative as one may think, he merely advocated for heavier efficiency of these services via cutting what is clearly unnecessary, as I agree to as well, though liberals usually try to excuse the cost issues as money is no object to them. The axis of Keynesian vs laissez-faire is more of a measure of intervention rather than the actual economic ideals of these two, as neither are necessarily counter to one another. The economics of Marxism are not a static set, they’re a collection of economic principles in a vague… Read more