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tay does a nice job of shutting you down hard, politely, i respect that. i love his use of "great question" where it obviously wasn't. tay is much kinder and smarter than me.

however lets not pretend that "wow planned economy" was a constructive or intellectually stimulating reply; in fact, as highlighted by my extremely scholarly and philosophical meme, calling everything communism without deeper analysis is a tired fucking rightwing excuse for a "conversation". real tucker carlson-grade pandering honestly. im personally quite put off that you would pretend this comment was in any way serious or legitimate. try harder.

as tay said, no, no this isn't communism, this is a tax, all states use taxation, period. next time you have a question, if you're seeking quality conversation or debate, you can pitch more than a single short reductivism to convey your inquiry. but ya didn't. i don't need pointers on how to interact with bad faith takes like yours, they are a dime a dozen, im rightfully tired of it, thanks.

I try to follow a philosophy that ad-hominem attacks are like nuclear weapons— no first use is best. Mutual assured destruction is pointless. 

Now, this approach absolutely failed the left electorally. Obama’s response to racist conspiracies and birther lies that began proliferating on social media during his presidency was captured in his wife’s motto— “When they go low, we go high.” 

Democrats tried to noble-white-knight civility— while the basis of public eloquence became captivating dirty lies to dog-whistle carnal prejudice. This “high ground” lost them ten years of congress and a presidential term.

Zoomer leftists traumatized by growing up losing elections now know— when opposition lies about you creepily grooming kids, lie back about them creepily fornicating with couches. The lie is the ticket to organic reach. This is why Biden had to drop out. He could not savage.

This being said, I chose to believe @benersing asked about communism in good faith, not as ad-hominem savagery.

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I genuinely view what I see as dramatic attempts to constrain market forces as being closer to a communist-oritented policy than free-market policies. 

Now a strong case can be made that truly free markets are not in fact beneficial for the whole of society. That's a separate discussion though IMHO. 

So yes, while we disagree, it was a genuine comment and not intending to provoke outrage or pick a fight.

The only problem is externality pricing.

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Certainly. 

I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that even a handful of private equity owners, let alone one, have enough pricing power to be the primary driver behind the affordability crisis.

But I feel like you would agree that preventing monopoly is an important prerequisite to a functioning free market, if there’s only one vendor (or a cabal of price fixing vendors), it’s hardly a market and certainly not a free one