You are still confused between the map and the territory. What you think of as “pure capitalism” does not exist, has never existed, and will never exist. It’s a model!
You’ve got this backwards. I proposed a model of capitalism that fits the entire OECD. You have countered by chopping off my specification when nobody intervenes and saying I’ve confused map and territory.
We are talking about situations where economically useless people starve to death. That does happen in your model, that does not happen in OECD in reality. That makes me think that within this context you have a bad model which does not reflect the real life.
Of course you can propose a model in which anything you want to happen, happens. So what?
We are talking about situations where economically useless people starve to death.
No, we are talking about situations in which economically useless people starve to death without state intervention. Thus we can simply count the number of people dependent for their subsistence on welfare-state subsidies, which is quite a lot, actually.
You’ve got this backwards. I proposed a model of capitalism that fits the entire OECD. You have countered by chopping off my specification when nobody intervenes and saying I’ve confused map and territory.
So what is the purpose of your model?
We are talking about situations where economically useless people starve to death. That does happen in your model, that does not happen in OECD in reality. That makes me think that within this context you have a bad model which does not reflect the real life.
Of course you can propose a model in which anything you want to happen, happens. So what?
No, we are talking about situations in which economically useless people starve to death without state intervention. Thus we can simply count the number of people dependent for their subsistence on welfare-state subsidies, which is quite a lot, actually.