I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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I wonder if US travellers have been exposed to the boiling frog for a long time, and most travellers don't leave the US so they don't know that things could be like.
Pretty much the exact opposite of a free market, which isn't unrestrained. And completely unrelated to unrestrained capitalism.
Of course, I am using more or less traditional definitions. You definition would require me making up new words for everything else in economics.
A free market, to remain free, must be protected to prevent that, enabling the individual to own and grow his own capital (means of production).
But capitalism itself has no will, it's just an increasingly (and frustratingly) complex set of various economic models.
As a knifemaker I am an artist and a capitalist. I control and grow my own means of production and sell goods.
What you are saying is that I MUST seek to give the crappies product with the maximum profit.
I disagree.
Vehemently
We will disagree. I get that. All free market economics is evil for you. Fortunately for me as a self employed artist, you guys haven't enslaved me to the people's farm combine yet.