Re: The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

So we have been brainwashed?

What then is the best economic system?

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[delsur2009]

Shock was testing many times in Latin America and it's the method to keep the people down. History of Latin America it's history of shock in many matters as economics, politics, society. Friedman was the mind of exploitation of Latin America. People over there are just poor being rich -having oil, gold, silver, lot of resources!- but 190 millions of poor people!!! just sucks!!!

[stevenabuono]

No withholding Free Enterprise is the way to keep people down.

[delsur2009]

freedom for enterprises it's not the problem. The thing it's how far these freedom goes. If you have corporations behind the political power it's a huge problem! But the freedom is not used properly. The thing is that these huge corporations have grown too much politically and are interfering with development! that's the problem!!

[stevenabuono]

I would have to agree with you there

[delsur2009]

Thanks for being honest and understandable!

[godscuttingyoudown]

ask the people of Katrina how well the free market or the illusion of a free market is doing for them.

in answer; where will the alternative come from? From the one place your arrogance blinds you.

a truly free market is like eBay, organic and never planed it grows because smart people or people who think their smart do not run things

nature is at its best when their is an absence of a god.

[myriamrobin]

in response to the neoliberal/neoclassical/keynes­ian economic debate, if my studies in economics have taught me anything its that no one system is perfect. governments have to balance the different schools of economics. naomi klein is ridiculous btw. i suggest anyone confused should read 'the truth about globalization' by phillipe legrain. the truth is probably somewhere between their two views.

[sydfynch]

(cont)

Right now, the big problem is that we do not really have a "free market" system. What we have is a system in which a few groups with large wealth use politicians and government to manipulate the markets they want in the ways they want in order to benefit them. The problem comes because often what is in the best interest of the workers, the environment, social health, etc... is not what the people with the purse strings want. That's about as short as I can make it.

[sydfynch]

it's hard to answer that question in such a small space (500 characters), but here's my attempt: the "best system" that truly serves EVERYONE and not just the few in the investor/ownership/oligarcyhy class is a system that uses a combination of government oversight and regulation and some "open market" principals. (cont)

[kulani2323]

Actually, if you listen to more of what Naomi Klein says, she's proposing a type of Social Democracy in which the market is more responsive to the needs of the people it serves. Our founding fathers intended for corporations to serve the public good. Let's not forget that the Boston Tea Party happened at the expense of the British East India Company.