We should really *try* some market based solutions first. We haven’t actually done that very much. We cut services and called it market based solutions (eg free schools) We manipulated supply and demand to get the results we wanted (eg the housing market) and called it “the market”. But I don’t think we’ve ever actually just let the market succeed or fail for any socially important activity. Until then, you can’t blame “the market”. And replacing “the market” with some other system, also micromanaged by the same corrupt popularist, short term, arseholes as the current system won’t work. Because the but you’re replacing isn’t the problem…
The trouble with the free market is that needs heavy regulation, and the tories don’t like regulation. For example: the free market has completely fucked the environment as there has been no cost for causing pollution etc.
Globalisation slowed inflation over the past 30 years, but now we’re realising that long supply chains and “just in time” doesn’t always work and now we’re localising again. There’s not a lot any government can do about that right now.
The solution is clearly centrally managed communism.
Labour is the property of the state and should be deployed anywhere at a moments notice on the whim of an unelected bureaucrat.
Government should decide what goods are manufactured and also take full control of agriculture, any resulting famine will simply be a salve for our nations obesity problem.
Anyone who deviates from this belief can be sent to Ascension island along with the refugees.
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We should really *try* some market based solutions first. We haven’t actually done that very much. We cut services and called it market based solutions (eg free schools) We manipulated supply and demand to get the results we wanted (eg the housing market) and called it “the market”. But I don’t think we’ve ever actually just let the market succeed or fail for any socially important activity. Until then, you can’t blame “the market”. And replacing “the market” with some other system, also micromanaged by the same corrupt popularist, short term, arseholes as the current system won’t work. Because the but you’re replacing isn’t the problem…
The trouble with the free market is that needs heavy regulation, and the tories don’t like regulation. For example: the free market has completely fucked the environment as there has been no cost for causing pollution etc.
Globalisation slowed inflation over the past 30 years, but now we’re realising that long supply chains and “just in time” doesn’t always work and now we’re localising again. There’s not a lot any government can do about that right now.
The solution is clearly centrally managed communism.
Labour is the property of the state and should be deployed anywhere at a moments notice on the whim of an unelected bureaucrat.
Government should decide what goods are manufactured and also take full control of agriculture, any resulting famine will simply be a salve for our nations obesity problem.
Anyone who deviates from this belief can be sent to Ascension island along with the refugees.
What could possibly go wrong?