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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by danesparza on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:38PM (#14839928)
Nope.

There are many forms of capitalism...

Humanistic capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_capitalism

Anarcho-capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Democratic capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_capitalism

Eco-capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-capitalism

Inclusive capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_capitalism

Neo-capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Capitalism

...just to name a few.

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:02PM (#14841562)
Then there's, you know, "capitalism in actual practice".

Which is what the Dude above was referring to.

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by humanrebar on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:13PM (#14841679)
As long as we don't confuse what we have right now (corrupt cronyism, corporatism, blatant vertical monopolies, blatant government-backed monopsonies, etc.) with an actual free market.
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:17PM (#14841709)
Yep, it's best not to confuse reality with pipe dreams, generally.
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by humanrebar on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:27PM (#14841804)
I'm not sure what way that sarcasm is cutting. I'll say the "design the problem away" impulse is partly what causes corporatism and monopolies. For example, regulatory capture in which the regulated industries more or less control the regulators.

So I'll say the regulate-the-problem-away impulse is a pipe dream in the long run.

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:49PM (#14842002)
So I'll say the regulate-the-problem-away impulse is a pipe dream in the long run.

I'll call it "the lesser of nightmares".

Being as we've seen where "just let property owners do whatever they want" has lead us to in the past.

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by Danihan on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:28PM (#14842355)
Where's that?
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:03PM (#14842665)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by Danihan on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:43PM (#14842991)
And so now we have strict liability law.

Considering that, I don't believe this case, really justifies your (apparent) paranoia against the free market.

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:05PM (#14843166)
It isn't paranoia when the entire history of the "free market" demonstrates that... (not all, but a far to high proportion of) these entities pretty much will screw over everyone and everything they can, in exchange an extra buck or too -- unless very rigorously constrained from doing otherwise.

Or that is to say, "regulated".

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by Danihan on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:12PM (#14843209)
THAT'S why there are so few issues in the heavily government controlled sectors of the economy, like health care, public education and drug policy. /s
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by kafkaesq on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:25PM (#14843307)
There's plenty of issues, of course.

Which again, is why I referred to it as the "lesser of nightmares".

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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by jononor on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:37PM (#14842434)
However "look the other way" isn't a very viable strategy either, it can also easily end up with corporate abuse. So what to do?
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Re:Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet by Bakary on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:01AM (#14854593)
Aren't those the natural consequences and evolutions of a truly free market?
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