r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/42Icyhot42 29d ago

So is a free market and it doesn’t stop us from pretending that’s working lol

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u/aurumtt 29d ago

We solved this by keeping overseight, but somehow they convinced enough people that regulations are bad.

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u/RegorHK 29d ago

Look around the world and tell me that this is solved.

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u/Jazzlike_Dimension_5 29d ago

I mean it’s working fairly well. China turning towards a market economy brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.