Re: @Sirius Lee - Staggered by the misplaced wonder
@96percentchimp
"Sure, the 'free market' has pulled people from poverty and peasantry, if you shrug off the millions trampled, displaced, murdered, poisoned and otherwise disenfranchised on the way there"
Fair comment. I wont deny that. Just that it actually produces a better off population than the alternatives tried especially communism.
"There's never any middle ground and not a scrap of self-awareness."
The problem is that the starting point is all that death and destruction. Free market progresses people out of that to the point of relative problems instead of absolute. Communism drags people back even if they progressed forward previously, Back to that state of absolute problems you mention.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
