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48 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14h \ parent \ on: Mamdani: 'There Is No Problem Too Large for Government To Solve' Politics_And_Law
My base case is that they add regulatory burden on the margins, create more bureaucratic bloat, declare this as victory, and blame greedy capitalists when life gets worse
So, same old I guess
Very likely. They already have rent control and blame the housing crisis on capitalism. When socialism fails it's always freedom to blame. Though they don't have the balls to say it like that. They use capitalism as the punching boy. And by that they are referring crony capitalism.
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Crony capitalism is an innate human tendency.
Trump is an example of it writ large and blatant with his meme coins, corporate sponsors pardons for a price and multiple other rentseeking conflicts of interest.
Good government is the only thing that can sometimes reduce its manifestation and undermining of free markets.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
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