5min chapter

Hermitix cover image

The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered with John Michael Greer

Hermitix

CHAPTER

What Do You Think of the Marxists?

There is no such thing as a free market because there's no way to prevent it from being abused. The first job of any capitalist in any market system whatsoever is to replace the free market with an oligopoly or a monopoly, at which point it stops being free. Any time anybody says x has not been tried, you can basically assume that they're shovelling smoke up their own nose. And so they're trying to say, what they're trying are policies for freemarket society - and well, these policies have never achieved the goal. So anarcho-capitalist capitalists are doubly silly everywhere In Anarcho i've ever met one very rough rich person who wanted to be very wr

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode