Reply #11: Not at all [View All]

[alcibiades_mystery]

I'm not a libertarian. The point is that markets will produce these destructive results, even if they're accepted just a little bit. At the end of the day, the only positive result of all this is that it will equalize labor conditions globally, such that the true terror of markets are no longer restricted to the developing world, but become clear to even first-worlders, who have been shielded from their effects for long enough to have bought the market evangelism. Hell, I'd like to see a global labor power that recognizes the depravity of so-called markets. Yes, indeed. US workers have been able to pretend that the market does good things for them, because they have cell phones and can go out to the Olive Garden. They haven't had to eat the terror of the market. Now they do, so the whining is predictable, and the rank hypocrisy transparent.