What possible rationale can a liberal give for opposing relatively unbridled capitalism?
- They're really conservative, and they'd rather things just stay the way they are. Capitalism changes stuff fast, and unpredictably, and that's not cool.
- They don't understand that capitalism creates wealth, and is thus better for the poor than anything else.
- They want status to accrue to their people, not to the (gauche) folks who make stuff.
- They misunderstand governments relationship to corporations...they think that governments sometimes weaken the dangerous big corporations, rather that ALWAYS strengthening them.
- They want to be the boss, and tell folks what is good for them, just like the conservatives do...though they disagree about what is good.
- They misunderstand wealth as fixed, rather than created entirely by mostly disruptive innovation.
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I lean towards (1). My guess is that many of them perceive the disruptive nature of unbridled free-enterprise but think that the disruption will harm the poor more than the rich. I think many who would thwart competition have a time horizon limited to at most 2 or 3 steps in a repeated game analysis.
In my experience, economic liberals cling to the myth of the "zero sum game" with a religious fever only rivaled by that of the Gaia-worshiping-eco-nuts when it comes to Anthropogenic Global Warming.
All good points. I like (1): my politically liberal acquaintances live button down, conservative personal lives; my politically conservative friends are hard partying, welfare using sex maniacs.
The over arch-ment of liberalism is using central authority to generate their preconceived notion of fairness.
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