lol imagine someone believing in the invisible hand of the free market in 2026

In the short term there are distortions and inefficiencies. It may feel like free market is done .

However in the long term, economics usually finds the most efficient way.

Maintaining inefficient structures like tariffs or monopolies becomes more and more expensive and eventually untenable and disruptions will occur.

In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes)

Really feels like 1928

You must be new here

Care to explain what led to this reaction?

have you heard of people not surviving into old age, or not being present or not being able to take care of kids? What the fuck is wrong with people in this comment section?

> have you heard of people not surviving into old age

not really, overall the life expectancy is growing well over 80 years old. unless you live, like, in the woods and feed off berries and hunting or something like that.

and yeah sure there might be somebody that loses their parents at 15, absolutely. i'm sorry for them, but they are not statistically representative in any way.

ladies and gentlemen, the fucking state of hn.

grounded in reality you mean?

nah you're only speaking out of your ass

yeah, what the fuck? This comment section is utterly fucking insane.

Never has a website's title been so consistently wrong over such a large variety of subjects.

Colin Powell must be shaking vials of yellow powder in his grave right now.

Not to mention trafficking and raping children

I still fail to see if that is their side hobby or the entire point for them.

To get into power, you need to be supposed by others (the vast majority of the time).

For those doing the supporting, they often want to be assured that they’ll not be hurt or retaliated against by those they put ‘above’ them.

So, leverage, and what is the best kind of leverage? the most despicable thing one can think of.

It’s the fucking department of defense.