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peterashfordyesterday at 9:28 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yeah but this is the entire point of Neoliberal economics: enabling rent seeking behaviour to allow Capital to accrue wealth by virtue of being the biggest pile of wealth. It's ultimately not sustainable: the reductio ad absurdum of this state of affairs is one Capitalist owning everything. Clearly the pitchforks will come out before that, its just a question of how long it takes before it all explodes


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strictneintoday at 1:17 AM

> entire point of Neoliberal economics: enabling rent seeking behaviour to allow Capital to accrue wealth

Rent seeking is enabled by government involvement in markets. The idea that it was the point of "Neoliberal economics" is simply wrong.

dgellowyesterday at 9:54 PM

Sorry to tell you, but no pitchforks will come to save you

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