Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron
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Sure, the marketplace provides choices - all with the same coverage in a race to the bottom, by nearly a half-dozen "health" insurance banks.
Burn down the Milton Friedman, Chicago-Boys church of economics. That dogma doesnt serve anyone but banks and oil companies that refuse to grow with the market. It only pretends to be a science, a school, rationalizing the effort to encourage the worst of human behaviour.
The only argument left is about whether Keynes or Marx applies better in this perspective. And I usually lean towards Kropotkin.
https://mises.org/wire/difference-between-austrians-and-ever...
https://mises.org/wire/austrian-economics-vs-keynesian-econo...
Meanwhile in the non-facile analogized real world, real wages haven’t budged in 40 years https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/10/1...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Some of the data used by your source uses the year 2000 as a baseline. This was a highwater mark and feels like cherry-picking (caveat: it is a nice round number). This narrative was especially strong during the great recession, but it is not strong today.