I was thinking... 🤔💭

...capitalism stops working when money can be printed.

If liquidity can be created out of nothing, entrepreneurship no longer follows real value — it follows proximity to power and proximity to the money-printer. Incentives shift: instead of innovating, businesses seek easy credit, subsidies and bailouts.

🏥Take for instance Pfizer, Moderna and other major pharma firms racing to protect patents and delay generic competition. The U.S. Congress recently flagged an $8.8 billion “bailout” for BIG Pharma via exemptions in Medicare price-negotiation.

💻Or look at Meta Platforms, Google LLC and other BIG Tech platforms. Regulation is being demanded (e.g., the EU’s Digital Markets Act) to rein in their dominance — but such regulation also creates complex compliance burdens and can solidify existing players at the expense of competition.

🍖And consider Nestlé S.A., Coca‑Cola Company and major BIG food corporates: subsidies, guaranteed loans or trade protections shift incentives away from truly competitive markets into political rent-seeking.

The “free market” loses its meaning when it’s distorted by the wrong incentives. And when the distortions become tangible (e.g., high drug prices, rising mental health issues, high obesity rates), the public demands government intervention — feeding a paradox: to fix the problems caused by intervention, we ask for even more of it.

As a result, the state grows, the economy becomes more bureaucratic, and capitalism turns into an inefficient hybrid where no one has a real incentive to change the rules, making the world worse rather than more efficient.

The outcome?

A system that feeds on the problems it creates and makes things worse each time it tries to fix them.

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