Free market capitalism has lead to the greatest standard of living ever experienced in the history of the world, especially for citizens on the lowest rungs of society. It may be at odds with your quibbles of modern society, but when viewed holistically I’m so happy that we have clean water, tons of nutritious food, computers, etc. etc. etc.
Your clean water generally comes from your government-run water supply, not from a private company. Many of the important discoveries in water purification were made by people who didn't stand to profit from it personally, including English doctor John Snow, German scientist Moritz Traube (who funded himself as a wine reseller), US government contractor George W. Fuller, British officer Vincent Nesfield, etc., all of whom published their research.
> tons of nutritious food
Did you ever hear story of Norman Borlaug the wise? I thought not, it's not a story the libertarians would tell you.
> computers
Like the ones made in communist China? Or even the ones made historically in the Soviet Union, which kept close pace with capitalist America during the early days of the field, both in terms of fundamental research (cf. the Cook-Levin theorem) and in terms of actual production? (Not that calling America "capitalist" is quite fair, given how much of the work took place under publicly-funded universities and how much was done by government-funded military contracts.)
You are on another planet. The USSR collapsed, east Germany collapsed, Cuba is a joke, China is capitalist, you are living in fairy land.
The government may support a lot of research but the government’s tax base derives from entrepreneurs who create a healthy free market. No socialist utopia exists and you live in a good society because of economic freedom. None of this is news to most people, and me telling you this I guarantee will make no difference to you given how brainwashed you seem to be.
Nothing is stopping you from moving to Cuba. Good luck!
That’s a debatable point but the fundamental economic structure of society is sound. Free market capitalism won, wins, and will continue to win.
But like I said - Venezuela and Cuba are hurting a lot. They need good comrades to help them. Please emigrate there and help fix their societies by donating your labor and knowledge. I just don’t understand why more people don’t move there to help! You seem like an ideological comrade that could help them, please go there quickly.
Ah, but I'm already helping them. The biggest reason they're hurting is America has spent almost an entire century using government funds to prevent other countries from becoming communist and to prevent communist countries from being successful. If I can win hearts and minds in America and make us stop doing that, then that solves the underlying problem and not just the symptom.
First, reasonable people do disagree about what free markets are, and many people do believe that free markets are by definition not regulated by anything but market forces.
Second, regulated markets are not an indicator of socialism, per se. It's entirely possible for regulated capitalism to exist, it's just debatable whether such markets can be called free.
Third, there is still no accepted definition of free market capitalism which makes your former comment true. Regulation is still the primary factor responsible for water and food quality.
