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Re:U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor ma... by sidlls on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:02PM (#27565735)
Best for whom? Based on what evidence? Every time I see "free market" honestly I roll my eyes a little. There really aren't any truly free markets in the first place; in the second, the more free, the generally less efficient for anything except moving wealth from those that have little of it to those that have much.
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Re:U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor ma... by imtringued on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:43AM (#27567457)
I agree. As long as paradoxes of competition exist the free market is just that, an ideal.

There are a lot of scenarios where selfish behavior is rational for the individual but only permissible for a minority but if literally everyone does the selfish behavior everyone loses more than if they had done nothing.

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Re:U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor ma... by specialist on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:16PM (#27565814)
Agreed. Markets are open, gray, black, private, or closed. "Free market" is just very successful agitprop.
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