• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    Yes. Free markets eventually degrade into centrally-planned systems.

    That does not mean that centrally-planned systems are an aspect of capitalism, any more than a pile of decaying bones is an aspect of a family pet.

    Free markets degrade over time. That does not invalidate their utility; it just means they are like all other phenomena in being temporary.

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      centrally-planned systems are an aspect of capitalism

      Isn’t that the end goal of capitalism? Winning is having control of all the capital right? How can you divorce the implied, if not explicit, end goal of a system from the system itself?

      pile of decaying bones is an aspect of a family pet.

      How is this not an aspect? It’s the inevitable end of any living thing, much like capitalism and the heartless exploitation of literally everything