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Everything is so expensive
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Can’t help but notice this person mentioned three extremely regulated industries where the government provides money to help people afford it.
Three industries we’ve decided are “too important to leave to the free market”.
Three industries where the government (a) restricts supply and (b) subsidizes demand, three industries where costs have skyrocketed, three industries where middle men take massive shares and leave nothing to the workers.
Free markets don’t do that, because in free markets there’s competition. If we had a free market, then anyone could take care of old people, take care of children, and teach courses on philosophy and engineering.
But none of those markets are open. The government maintains tight entry barriers that require enormous sums of money and legal effort to overcome.
They’re too important to be left to the free market, so they produce endless misery.
Oh, of course! We should just let whomever open up a child or elder care center wherever they want with whatever conditions. The Invisible Hand will stop any abuse or neglect that occurs. That will solve prices, like how it has worked on uhhhhh... well, it has worked on loss leader technological devices that demand subscriptions to our own property or harvest our personal data. Everything else seems to have undergone "inflation" while companies boast about record profits.
The alternative is our current situation.
False dilemma
You sound just like the democrats when people bring up voting 3rd party. We really are all alike more then we think eh?