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0 pointsnawgz3y ago0 comments

> I don't know why the myth that private sector entities create technologies is so pervasive

Money pays to protect money, so all sorts of convenient myths are part of the common knowledge.

Privatization is destroying the world. Capitalism is only a plausible economic system under heavy regulation and governments with more power than the corporations.

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culi3y ago· 1 in thread

It's only in the US that "libertarian" is associated with being pro-capitalist. In pretty much every other country it's inherently recognized that capitalism requires a massive state so libertarianism is considered a far left ideology that is anti-capitalist

WheatMillington3y ago

What countries? I live in New Zealand and at least here, in Australia and in the UK libertarianism is a politically right ideology that's tightly wound with capitalism. In which countries is it a politically left ideology? It's certainly not true that your description is a uniquely American point of view.

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