But we don’t live under capitalism, it’s not a free market.
Canada is a command and control economy under the government. Certain corporations get bailouts and subsidies. We have crown corporations and protectionism in many industries that eliminates competition, like in communications companies. We have CANCON that mandates content for television and radio.
We have business lobbies that push for more immigration and TFWs to keep wages low. We have affirmative action hiring that means labour is often not based on supply.
All the major industries in Canada - transportation, energy, media, communications, food, retail...all of them are either monopolies or oligopolies. With almost zero competition. In some cases it’s run by the government entirely and competition is illegal.
Name one country on planet earth that has a "pure" capitalist economy. I'll wait. Take your time. Wealthy people are the most mobile and capital mobile in the fucking world. Why haven't they created Ancapistan? People (including the wealthy) must like government regulation of the economy if Ancapistan hasn't been created yet...
Hong Kong and Singapore come pretty close. But of course no pure capitalist economy exists. But the point isn’t necessarily to find for a pure version of capitalism, but rather to find a system unfettered as much as possible by government intervention.
but rather to find a system unfettered as much as possible by government intervention.
Then stop bitching about globalism. You're advocating for the government preventing Canadians from buying foreign, from foreigners investing in the Canadian economy, from Canadians investing abroad, etc. Are these not government interventions in the economy?
You're making appeals to popularity. Meanwhile you're the ones in this thread whining about globalism destroying the country. Globalism that the people voted for.
But we don’t live under capitalism, it’s not a free market.
Canada is a command and control economy under the government. Certain corporations get bailouts and subsidies. We have crown corporations and protectionism in many industries that eliminates competition, like in communications companies. We have CANCON that mandates content for television and radio.
We have business lobbies that push for more immigration and TFWs to keep wages low. We have affirmative action hiring that means labour is often not based on supply.
All the major industries in Canada - transportation, energy, media, communications, food, retail...all of them are either monopolies or oligopolies. With almost zero competition. In some cases it’s run by the government entirely and competition is illegal.
Name one country on planet earth that has a "pure" capitalist economy. I'll wait. Take your time. Wealthy people are the most mobile and capital mobile in the fucking world. Why haven't they created Ancapistan? People (including the wealthy) must like government regulation of the economy if Ancapistan hasn't been created yet...
Hong Kong and Singapore come pretty close. But of course no pure capitalist economy exists. But the point isn’t necessarily to find for a pure version of capitalism, but rather to find a system unfettered as much as possible by government intervention.
Then stop bitching about globalism. You're advocating for the government preventing Canadians from buying foreign, from foreigners investing in the Canadian economy, from Canadians investing abroad, etc. Are these not government interventions in the economy?
You're making appeals to popularity. Meanwhile you're the ones in this thread whining about globalism destroying the country. Globalism that the people voted for.