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Re:Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us by alienjr on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:30AM (#10330693)
Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments. Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile.

PS. Yes, there was huge shortage of toilet paper in Poland during 80's. Huge! My family was standing in the queues for 2-3h to get it.

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Re:Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us by bildung on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:40AM (#10330739)
> Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments.

And whole generations lived in misery during that period. I thought that's exactly what we were talking about?

> Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile.

I don't know about Hong Kong, but in Chile the Chicago school free market era under Pinochet ended in the collapse of the economy in 1982.

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