> It's untenable without a government-enforced wealth-redistributing tax to offset that.
I find it interesting that you point the problem (this is not capitalism but rather the lack of it) and then suggest that the government (which made this whole system possible) somehow fixes this. The government is the problem and a top down approach doesn't work (it didn't work for the soviets and it's not going to work now).
The solution is capitalism, and liberalization of the markets. In other words, letting people and capital build houses and live in them.
You post is not coherent with the one you are replying to. Without government setting the rules, capitalism leads to monopolies, like it did with standard oil.
The bigger company can kill all competition despite having inferior product with unfair practices such as - Dumping, market manipulation, self-dealing, wash trading, antitrust, insider trading, collusion, cartels, negative externalities, anticompetitive practices, misinformation, corporate espionage, etc.
If you take off the last remaining government safeguards, you will not have more competition. You will have monopolies for good we need to survive.
I find it interesting that you point the problem (this is not capitalism but rather the lack of it) and then suggest that the government (which made this whole system possible) somehow fixes this. The government is the problem and a top down approach doesn't work (it didn't work for the soviets and it's not going to work now).
The solution is capitalism, and liberalization of the markets. In other words, letting people and capital build houses and live in them.