"When it comes down to the question of which system today is the most effective at generating rising standards of living, the historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. ... So ideologically speaking, there is no more mint chocolate chip, there is no more strawberry swirl, and there is no more lemon-lime. Today there is only free-market vanilla and North Korea. There can be different brands of free-market vanilla and you can adjust your society to it by going faster or slower. But, in the end, if you want higher standards of living in a world without walls, the free market is the only ideological alternative left. One road. Different speeds. But one road." --Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization What pains me so, is that we still take these ignorant and vile system apologists seriously! They never learn. They never apologize for the fact that they got everything so utterly wrong. They still flood the media with their intellectual garbage. They still do so well while others suffer unendingly and ever increasingly. They have no shame. They are never taken to task. Why should they learn?
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:13:55 +0000
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