{"id":9071,"date":"2019-11-23T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:01:42","slug":"a-convincing-critique-of-free-market-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/23\/a-convincing-critique-of-free-market-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Convincing Critique of Free Market Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Friday, another podcast by the <a href=\"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=19110\">Voice of Saruman<\/a>.\u00a0 This week the ZMan\u2019s talk was a condemnation of Free Market Capitalism or as he characterized it \u201cMarketism.\u201d\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m far from an adherent to all of the ZMan\u2019s opinions but I think it would benefit even the most strident libertarian to listen to this argument.<\/p>\n<p>In my youth I was a pretty strong adherent to the idea that whatever I built was my own business and the government had no right to tell me how I could run it.\u00a0 But after witnessing the stalinist policies of Silicon Valley and their cronies in the rest of big business I\u2019m perfectly willing to see the Department of Justice crush them if for no other reason than to pay them back for the damage they\u2019ve done to regular people that ran afoul of their twitter mobs and sjw finks.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.\u00a0 Forget the ZMan\u2019s other dissident right beliefs.\u00a0 Listen to his arguments and examples.\u00a0 He makes a whole lot of sense.\u00a0 Capitalism is not a religion it\u2019s a tool.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t serve the needs of the people then it\u2019s a bad tool and needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3909\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png 3909w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-1024x223.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3909px) 100vw, 3909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Friday, another podcast by the Voice of Saruman.\u00a0 This week the ZMan\u2019s talk was a condemnation of Free Market Capitalism or as he characterized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237],"tags":[1865,1236,491,2202,886],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","tag-capitalism","tag-free-market","tag-the-z-man","tag-voice-of-saruman","tag-zman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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