"Freedom is ethical - it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity."
Since the actual biggest driver of these is food security, affordable housing, Healthcare, and education, I'm sure we're going to see him call for more Government support of them, right?
I'm just grateful for the benevolent and sentient "internet" - that seamlessly has replaced the work of editors and journalists to bring me curated viewpoints from a wide-range of thoughtful and intelligent sources
I fun way to promote “personal liberty” use of “free markets” could be listing all the alternatives to Amazon.
Maybe also about how tariffs are by definition anti free market?
Jeff: only personal liberties and free markets opeds now
A: ok wow so how getting rid of trans people from government is anti-liberty?
Jeff: oh, no, not those
A: more posts about how tariffs are bad?
Jeff: guess again
A: so ... which personal liberties and free markets?
Jeff: oh, you know the ones
the funny thing is that in a world of better "free-markets and personal liberties" you'd have half a million millionaire-sized startups instead of one Bezos-sized billionaire, and none of them would be able to afford to buy and silence a newspaper
They could pretty much open "The Wealth of Nations" at a random page any time they want to write an editorial and use what they see to write a piece attacking Amazon.
really tired of these assholes pretending "what if I had all the money and control of everything and you all just had to do what I say" were some kind of higher-moral principle and anyone who disagrees with them is stupid or depraved
The phrasing at the end "I'm confident that personal liberty and free markets are right for America" has airs of "Daddy Bezos knows best, it's ok, kids." Just nauseatingly patronizing and self aggrandizing.
That is literally the premise of Prosperity Gospel "Christianity"... which tens of millions of Americans follow... including Trump.
The logic is: "wealth is a blessing from god; the richest are the most blessed; the most blessed must be god's favorites; ergo, the richest are the best people."
The free market, where a humble space technology executive can work his way up the campaign finance ladder to secure FAA contracts and fire as many NASA employees as he wants
The problem that ole Jeff doesn't really want to talk about is how his vision of free markets significantly impairs any kind of expansive personal liberties.
remember marisa: actually working for the federal government on a salary: lazy, stupid, bad for america. Living on a super-yacht paid for by your ownership-stake in a trillion-dollar company that staff and government-contracts built for you: amazing, genius, the smartest little boy who ever lived
free-market is when you can phone up your buddy the president to exempt your firm from tariffs, but not when workers join union. It's simple economy-math
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Since the actual biggest driver of these is food security, affordable housing, Healthcare, and education, I'm sure we're going to see him call for more Government support of them, right?
Maybe also about how tariffs are by definition anti free market?
A: ok wow so how getting rid of trans people from government is anti-liberty?
Jeff: oh, no, not those
A: more posts about how tariffs are bad?
Jeff: guess again
A: so ... which personal liberties and free markets?
Jeff: oh, you know the ones
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/washington-post-lost-100-million-last-year-amid-staff-shakeups-wsj-reports-wapo-journalism-media-jeff-bezos
Jeff: You’re fired.
A: I don’t work for you.
Jeff: We’ll see about that.
The logic is: "wealth is a blessing from god; the richest are the most blessed; the most blessed must be god's favorites; ergo, the richest are the best people."
No, not that...
How about showing ID to take books out of a library?
Not those...
The law, in its infinite majesty, grants that liberty both to the poors and the rich.
Jeff: *eyes bulge*
It's a contradiction. You can't have both.
White people in the Jim Crow South were very upset about the communists telling them they can't do things