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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 736235" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>If you were a white, land owning male, sure. Most people aren't. Women couldn't vote, blacks were enslaved a good part of the time, elderly, essentially lived in poverty/low fixed incomes. By what standard did things "work pretty well?" I beg to differ the point that the market would have effectively ended segregation in the South in any reasonable timeframe. With a majority (whites) having the power to control all levers of power, the government became an enforcer of segregation. Perhaps black people, and those sympathetic, not shopping at stores makes them lose money, but the white owner who SELLS to black people in Alabama in 1950 would lose the business of racist whites - undoubtedly more wealthy than their black neighbors. In this case, the free market would actually perpetuate racist tendencies. At look at the institution of slavery itself. The anti-bellum south was about as "free market" as any place or time in our history - with obviously tragic results. Perhaps I appear to be mixed up with my conclusions to you, but perhaps thats the way I perfer it, a mixed up of free market and state society. The ongoing, neverending debate being, what's that perfect balance/mix to achieve utopia ?..<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/peaceful.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":peaceful:" title="Peaceful :peaceful:" data-shortname=":peaceful:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 736235, member: 9859"] If you were a white, land owning male, sure. Most people aren't. Women couldn't vote, blacks were enslaved a good part of the time, elderly, essentially lived in poverty/low fixed incomes. By what standard did things "work pretty well?" I beg to differ the point that the market would have effectively ended segregation in the South in any reasonable timeframe. With a majority (whites) having the power to control all levers of power, the government became an enforcer of segregation. Perhaps black people, and those sympathetic, not shopping at stores makes them lose money, but the white owner who SELLS to black people in Alabama in 1950 would lose the business of racist whites - undoubtedly more wealthy than their black neighbors. In this case, the free market would actually perpetuate racist tendencies. At look at the institution of slavery itself. The anti-bellum south was about as "free market" as any place or time in our history - with obviously tragic results. Perhaps I appear to be mixed up with my conclusions to you, but perhaps thats the way I perfer it, a mixed up of free market and state society. The ongoing, neverending debate being, what's that perfect balance/mix to achieve utopia ?..:peaceful: [/QUOTE]
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