Donald Trump is a good person

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I disagree. That can happen but in my experience the majority are not criminals or assholes.

You're talking about small businesses and I agree. My father was a moderate businessman too. Running a small chain of shops and we were well off when I was a child. He was what you might call a patron, always looking out for his employees wellbeing and calling them by first name while they adressed him with mister.

But we're not talking about that anymore in our world. What makes it tick are impersonal corporations run by scum, getting away with everything, as 2008 has taught us in the most painful way possible. Buying out the competition, so it's not even a free market anymore. Large behemoths are running the economy, dertermining the quality as well as the price of goods. There's almost no competition to speak of in many fields. To the detriment of the consumer and to the detriment of the employees. That's a caricature of a free market, and a bad one for that matter.

And that's why I always make the distinction between a free market and capitalism. The former is helpful, the latter only serving a select few.