Free market myth
Our high standard of living depends directly on plundering the natural world, and social disasters like the slave trade or ethnic cleansing of native Americans by white settlers.
The western free market, competitive economy is a myth, dispelled by the subsidies to oil, gas, the nuclear industry, bio-technology, drug companies, defence, transport and farming. There are also relocation grants and regional assistance.
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Hide AdAnything goes where wealth creation is concerned, including engineering coups, endemic unemployment, displacement of native peoples, coercion and rule-breaking.
JOHN ROGERSON
Livingstone Place
Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire