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Re:The missing profits of nations by eecc on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:27PM (#17620701)
Also because the original title is a smug pun on “the wealth of nations”, Adam Smith’s essay that (neo)liberists trump around like Mao’s Red Book... Smith argued that letting capitalism loose would benefit us all - the wealth in his title - yet there seems to be quite a bit of it missing ;)
Re:The missing profits of nations by ralusek on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:10PM (#17623175)
Are you suggesting that capitalism has not benefitted us all?
Re:The missing profits of nations by dang on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:27PM (#17623237)
Please don't do generic ideological arguments on HN. There's nothing new in them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, could you stop posting unsubstantive comments generally?

Re:The missing profits of nations by ionised on Friday July 27, 2018 @06:47AM (#17624972)
Yes.