• PugJesus@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    Quite a few, strangely enough. “The freer the market the freer the people” is a phrase I used to hear much more often when I frequented less left-wing spaces.

    Even as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed teenage capitalist I found the notion… reductive.

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      3 days ago

      yeah, maybe “the freer the market the freer the people with a lot of capital” as we can very clearly see with the billionaires. but your circles must have been crazy, I dont think I remember meeting a left leaning person arguing for free markets.