I think we're just starting from fundamentally different axioms. I lean toward a KISS approach to economics, whereas you're prioritizing state-managed velocity. We'll have to agree to disagree.
That's exactly what I find so unfortunate. Most people assume 'free markets' automatically mean the system we have now: crony capitalism. It seems like people here have a deep-seated hatred for free markets, but just to be clear, saying this doesn't make me an AnCap.
I agree we aren't starting on day 1. The current wealth of billionaires is the result of State enforced monopolies on land, credit, and intellectual property.
If I work 8 hours, I have traded a piece of my finite life for that value, that is my toil and trouble. When we're talking about money, it doesn't have to be always fiat money provided from the State, money is historically a market-chosen commodity (gold, silver, or even cryptocurrency) that exists independently of the State but it's just a matter of the people what kind of money they choose and how do they spend them.
I can agree on this, the Epstein files is one of many factors that caused the attack of Iran but the tension between Iran and US is already going on for years.
Iran's tensions with US have been going on for a long time, many have predicted this based on the dynamics of the Middle East. We all just waiting for the time bomb to explode and it happened.
It's already planned by the 1% of the 1%
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Terminator, for the nostalgia.
Finally, Linus being Linus.
What about we have more people like you, like me, like us that get away from big shitty corpo like Reddit and move to Fedi in mass? That's how a real free market works: if you don't like it, you leave/boycott.
The same principle applies to any aspect of society based on the market. The real 'ambition of the powerful' is usually fueled by State granted monopolies and regulatory capture where big corps use the law to kill small competitors.
Limiting their power shouldn't mean giving the State more control (which they eventually buy anyway), but rather decentralizing our choices. If we have the freedom to exit and build alternatives, their 'power' evaporates because it lacks our voluntary consent.