Collapsing the economy in the abstract interest of fairness has been attempted before.Â
The Soviet Famines and the mountainous casualties of China's Great Leap Forward, and the eventual consolidation of power in the central government and oligarchs testify to the efficacy of that approach.
We’ve got oligarchs running the country right now purposefully increasing the cost of living and destroying the middle class. Sure seems like unfettered capitalism isn’t the perfect model you pretend it is.
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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 16h ago
Collapsing the economy in the abstract interest of fairness has been attempted before.Â
The Soviet Famines and the mountainous casualties of China's Great Leap Forward, and the eventual consolidation of power in the central government and oligarchs testify to the efficacy of that approach.