{"id":1189,"date":"2011-08-04T08:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:27:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:27:40","slug":"idealistic-capitalism-vs-idealistic-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/idealistic-capitalism-vs-idealistic-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Idealistic Capitalism vs. Idealistic Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting to watch what happens when a person is presented  with a free-market solution to what has come to be seen as a problem for  government to solve.\u00a0 The problem might be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/03\/26\/replace-obamacare-with-health-savings-accounts\/\">health insurance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/03\/11\/why-social-security-is-a-ponzi-scheme\/\">retirement planning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/05\/22\/the-workers-right-to-not-join-a-union\/\">labor agreements<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/07\/10\/lets-allow-free-markets-to-fight-greed\/\">nearly anything<\/a> that people decide \u201cthey should do something about\u201d, with the \u201cthey\u201d  being the government. \u00a0 A lot of feedback I\u2019ve received on my last  several columns has a common theme: that the free-market sounds great in  theory, but it doesn\u2019t produce equal outcomes, and because of man\u2019s  moral imperfections, it\u2019s idealistic to rely on the free-market to  promote those outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>I stand accused of being an an Idealistic Capitalist, to which I plead guilty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/deanzarras\/2011\/07\/24\/idealistic-capitalism-vs-idealistic-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading at Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting to watch what happens when a person is presented with a free-market solution to what has come to be seen as a problem for government to solve.\u00a0 The problem might be health insurance, retirement planning, labor agreements, or nearly anything that people decide \u201cthey should do something about\u201d, with the \u201cthey\u201d being the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}