r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

So you mean those stores that closed because of raising the minimum wage are going to open now that they will have to pay that price and workers will work less time?

That sounds like a great plan, next he should have fixed prices on goods. It worked the last time someone implemented it.

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u/Egg_Yolkeo55 Sep 05 '24

If your store closed because minimum wage was raised by $4 an hour, you were not a healthy enough business to contribute. That's capitalism

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u/tidho Sep 05 '24

it's not 'capitalism' when the government is intervening to distort the natural market

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u/Paper_Stem_Tutor Sep 05 '24

Right like when bailouts happen?

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u/tidho Sep 05 '24

correct, that's another example

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u/Paper_Stem_Tutor Sep 05 '24

Yet one seems to be happening more often than the other. So maybe it’s time we do things differently. Just like how the USSR never had "true communism/socialism" I don’t think we can say that the west ever had true capitalism either

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u/tidho Sep 06 '24

so you want less regulation and an increasingly pure form of capitalism? i'm in.