The problem with free market policies is that it does not work. If you put two people, companies, or whatever to compete, there will be one that wins, but what about the other? Thats why today we have concentration of enormous fortunes in few hands, we have a minority very, extremely rich, and 2/3 of humanity under the poverty line. Put people to compete in market job, for instance, and while they all work hard to get the job, making it all look better, theres oly one that wins, and the rest is excluded.
Besides, the competition not always work. I recommend to study planned obsolesence as an example of no-competitios}n, but agrrements between companies that are supposed to compete, but they act together, like we have here with supermarkets (they put prices together, they dont compete) or the prepagas (they rise their prices together, especially the 5 bigger Medicus, Swiss Medical, OSDE, Galeno, Omint) they come to an agreement and act agaisnt the government, they press all together, again, they do not compete!.
But what I was saying, is that when you have free market policies, what happens indeed is concentration, is the one that wins winning more, is lots of money in fewer hands, is the big fish eating the small one, concentrating more and morrre each time. And the counterpart, extreme poverty, people with nothing, without a house, without health and education, without a piece of bread to eat. Thats how capitalism works, thats not bad functioning or a drift or something, thats how it works and how it had worked in the last centuries. Capitalism is a poverty factory, we have billions of people under the poverty line, and a bunch of multimillionare that could not spend like the 1% of their fortunes in all their entire lives (and their grandsons life -and living with opulence).
If we dont have this picture in the US and Europe, thats because they have a very strong states (yes: the opposite they preach abroad). They have both big states, with a huge social coverty, with tons of money spent in social programs, with internal market policies, with a very present state. But outside Europe or the US, what we have is very few people that takes every penny, and as a sociologist, the most important thing its that this minority that rules and exploit and abuse and do whatever they want, they do it with, except some few cases, 100% consent. Nobody questions how their social systems are functioning, people, millions of people, including us westerns, see this naturally, see this, extreme opulence and extreme poverty in the same city, as something natural. Well, what Marxism has teached me is exactly this, that all the wealth of these rich people can only come from one place: from the poor!! Theres nothing more complicated here, it is very simple, this is how the system works!! Thats how these societies work.
