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5. Free enterprise is an incomplete broken model that leads to bad results

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:30 PM

Jun 2014

It doesn't account properly for the commons, requires an open unsustainable where now it is obvious we live in closed system that needs a sustainable model. It worked well for a time but has reached the end of life. Time for creative destruction on a system level

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Billionaire: Free Market Essential for Happiness [View all] Octafish Jun 2014 OP

We do know that rogerashton Jun 2014 #1

That is great and good. Octafish Jun 2014 #2

Well, unless the unemployed people are retired with enough to live on Warpy Jun 2014 #4

The myth of the free market lives on...nt BillZBubb Jun 2014 #3

Tyler Cowen wrote an Op-Ed saying economy needs war in the New York Times. Octafish Jun 2014 #6

Free enterprise is an incomplete broken model that leads to bad results on point Jun 2014 #5

Thank you for putting it into words. Octafish Jun 2014 #7