Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
I'm just guessing here, Zeke, but it appears from the tone that you feel you've made some kind of a point. I feel like I am speaking to a wall. It's incredibly unsatisfying. Please, provide me an example of where you have actually responded to the substance of any comment I made. We can proceed from there. Perhaps you can identify how a mixed a economy doesn't exit (and, please notify the majority of economists)? Maybe I missed something in my economics or political philosophy classes?

Mode of production. Look it up - there's plenty written about it.
Mixed economy does exist (I never said it didn't). What I did say is that

UBI is, I think, a paradigm shift. It is a major departure from the wage economy. The principle point of a "mixed" economy is to ameliorate the negative effects of private capitalist economic activity, primarily the "externalized social costs", such as environmental degradation, while at the same time recognizing that capitalist enterprises provide significant economic boosts to the economy as a whole.
Mode of production - look it up. There's plenty written about it. It is the fundamental basis of ANY economy.
I never said Mixed Economy doesn't exist... I ask you politely, but for the last time, to stop putting words in my mouth.
I did say it is Capitalism in a party hat, not unlike Intelligent Design. It doesn't address the question of mode of production.
Keynes believed that government intervention could reduce the excesses of Capitalism. But, when the government is owned by the corporations, (as in the U.S.) the intervention favors the capitalists. The destruction of Labor Unions would be an example. As would be the concentration of wealth which occurs in ALL of the so-called instances of Mixed Economy, and especially in most of the developed countries.

I ask you to actually read what I wrote. Your ideology is blinding you to what I am saying, again. LOL
You cannot reconcile Capitalist Accumulation with Labor. Clear?
As for your points: you have made none. You stated opinions. I disagree with your opinions.






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