A Bitcoin Guy on Nostr: Many people criticize “free-market capitalism,” yet in reality, we’ve never ...
Many people criticize “free-market capitalism,” yet in reality, we’ve never truly had it.
Political power has always seeped into market dynamics, distorting them into crony capitalism, a system where influence, regulation, and favoritism replace genuine competition.
In doing so, politics captures and controls the market’s most essential mechanism: voluntary trade and exchange, disrupting its natural current and flow.
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