WOW, but you are paranoid
But seriously go and do some research on the relationship between economical freedom and economical prosperity of a country.
No, how about you rather go do some research on elementary economics.
Because then you'll see how oversimplified your statement really is. Tbh I find it hard to understand how you could be so naive. You do realise that most of the economies you try to uphold are infact economies that use other economies in the developing world as vassal economies, right?
You do realise that without the support from these economies, that the overall wealth generation tanks, right?
You do realise that the wealthy states have been waging economic imperialism since the dawn of history, right?
Surely you realise that most of the "liberalisation" packages given out by the IMF and World Bank were thinly disguised attempts at pillaging wealth from the countries "lucky" enough to get loans, to the point that the developing world is universally suspicious of the IMF?
You're confusing wealth with wealth distribution; the average US citizen is still more well off than the average citizen in most other countries in absolute terms (quality of life).
BS. You're mistaking living standards with quality of life and I was quite rightly pointing out the wealth distribution because BBSA falsely asserts that a free economy automatically means a better way of life for everyone concerned.
You'll see that income inequality in the US is actually fairly average as countries go --- so the picture of the US already looks less bleak than you suggest. And that's merely in relative terms - factor in GDP per capita and it looks downright good actually.
And just how much of that GDP was created by consumers who were buying on credit, hmmm?
And funnily enough this happens to coincide with a gradually increasing EROSION of economic freedoms in the US during the previous century ... amazing coincidence don't you think. You know what they say about socialism, it's like violence - if it's not working you must not be using enough ... same thing you see everywhere: Implement some socialism, watch it fail, blame free market economics for its failure and then apply even more socialism as the "cure". Downward spiral. Yet even so I'd say the average US citizen is still better off today than the average US citizen during the 1930s, so the USA's economic system can't quite be the horrible thing you seem to want to suggest it is.
Yeah, along came the 30s, the average working citizen got highly miffed at the inequitous state of affairs and activism ended up in minimum wage laws, social security and a host of other means of protection for the common working man. Since their introduction, of course, corporations have been hard at work trying to reverse these changes. Hardly surprising that things got better after the great depression and then started declining again not too long after that.
But hey, you can point at the restriction of the economy if you want (although I'm not entirely sure what restrictions you actually mean, tbh).
So you're saying that, say, London is an economically poor area then? How do you make that make sense? Clearly London is "prosperous" and has much wealth.
Just because London is a wealthy area doesn't mean that everyone living in London is wealthy.
[/quote]Or do you think the wealth should be taken by force from the rich and distributed evenly to those people in the crummy shared apartments instead? Do you think "prosperity" is something that a share of which should be given to you as a handout? If not, then why not just leave that (hypothetical?) apartment and go somewhere else where life is better? You're not entitled to any of someone else's prosperity, but you can sell your labour and earn some of your own.[/quote]
Where did I say any of this? Nice straw man.
The fact is if it wasn't to peoples' benefit to take those jobs where they have to live 6 to 8 in an apartment, they wouldn't do it. Slavery has long been abolished in most parts of the world, labour markets have never in history been more flexible and globalised than today, and the global economy, with all its jobs and opportunities, has never been so huge. Those people live like that because it IMPROVES upon the situation they came from, and if they saw a better quality of life elsewhere they'd choose that instead.
Well, we'll see how much you like globalisation in about 10 years time, mkay?
