You guys get that the term ‘free market’ was used to describe markets free from economic rent, right?

You guys seriously need some readings in economics in order to understand the position you’re in. You’ve allowed your rentiers to deindustrialize your country to chase profits in the global south.

What do you guys think you’re getting for your deindustrialization? Financialization. What does that mean? It means you’re getting, in large part, the benefits from your first paragraph – and associated rents.

But yeah, Chinese propaganda and such and such is easier to sell.