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I'm sorry, you think Twitter is a component of the US government?
No, capitalism is a component of the government. The point is to get the government out of twitter which records have shown the government was in twitter prior to Elon’s takeover.
Capitalism is not, and definitionally cannot be, a component of the government. It is an economic system
I use the word component loosely
Can you explain what you mean using other words? I am not great with loose language in general.
By stating that, it was a component of the government. In that context I was using component loosely.
I'm aware of that. What was the thing you intended?
All governments have an economic system and each economic system is dependent on some level of government involvement.
Yes but those economic systems aren't part of the gov, the gov is part of the economic system
Bullets are fired by a gun but are not part of a gun
But, it takes a gun to fire said bullet.
Yes that is my point.
??? The spring mechanism is apart of how a gun functions but the spring isn’t the gun it’s just a part of it. That’s no different from the bullet. We’ve gotten completely sidetracked of the main point.
You're just not following the my metaphor. Perhaps it was a bad metaphor on my part. Let me try without it. This will be a bit long.
The economic system does not affect the government. The government effects the economic system.
Capitalism is an economic system. The government can then choose many different ways to approach capitalism.
It can be state-run authoritarian capitalism as is the case with China in their designated trade zones.
It can be totally laissez-faire, as in Randian fiction (or my favorite take on it, the book Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits), allowing the market to dictate all growth
It generally is somewhere in between, with the state sometimes intervening in more or less extreme ways but generally just policing the system for health and safety reasons.
Capitalism, however, is not inherent to the government's operations. A capitalist economy can change into a socialist economy, or a mercantile economy, and the government not change. The UK went from mercantilism to capitalism without a significant change in their governance, as a very notable example.
no no. dig UP, stupid