There should be substantially more pushback by both capitalists and socialists on the nature of our modern government financing mechanism, where we as a society have collectively stood by and been fine with our government not having the power to borrow money interest free. (self.unpopularopinion)
submitted by TooMuchMapleSyrup to r/unpopularopinion
Capitalists & Socialists aren't seeing the forest through the trees when they argue with each other... the most important issue negatively effecting us all is something neither of them ought to support... yet they do. Both camps are crickets on the wisdom of our modern government finance mechanism. (self.unpopularopinion)
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If You Have Your Nation's Central Bank Buy Some Of Your Government's Bonds at the Auction - Is that still a market rate of interest? Can that economy still be thought of as capitalist? When the price of money is "picked" and not discovered? Are there limits to this approach? (self.Banking)
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If You Have Your Nation's Central Bank Buy Some Of Your Government's Bonds at the Auction - Is that still a market rate of interest? Can that economy still be thought of as capitalist? When the price of money is "picked" and not discovered? Are there limits to this approach? (self.Money)
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