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Regulated capitalism, where cases of market failure are addressed.


The Chinese model, got it.


I sometimes wish we actually had unregulated capitalism. Housing and healthcare would be much less terrible without legislated bottlenecks, among other areas.


Agreed with the nuance. We need less bad regulations (housing and health) and more good regulations (food and environment).


On the evidence of what exactly?

American healthcare is literally what you get with unregulated capitalism. Your statement makes no sense.


Regulation never works because people can be corrupted and banks can be bailed. Regulation might look like it's protecting the little guy for PR reasons, but it will always leave a way out for the big guy. This is why inequality keeps raising.

I wish we had completely unregulated capitalism, so that middle class people would have more weapons to climb up society instead of paying the bill for everyone while drowning in debt and soulcrushing careers.




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