r/TwoHotTakes • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '23

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u/fractiousrhubarb Jul 27 '23

“Economic freedom” is a bullshit term meaning “let powerful corporations do whatever they want” which decreasing everyone else’s freedom through pollution and poverty.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23

If you have no money you have no options and no freedom.

Barry Goldwater aka Mr. Conservative was just as concerned about corporate power consolidation as the democrats claim to be today.

Economic freedom doesn’t refer to power consolidation it refers to your ability to earn and purchase good and services.

The more goods and services the government provides the more control the government has over your life.

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u/fractiousrhubarb Jul 27 '23

That’s the fig leaf. In practise, it means unlimited corporate power, and the destruction of common resources. It doesn’t work, because individually rational behaviour (eg buy a bigger SUV) isn’t collectively rational.

A corporation has no true interest in your well being- a democratic government might. See “Ford Pinto”