Don’t Mention This Country. You’ll Invade Their ‘Safe Space’

There’s a country that presently triggers members of the big government crowd. It won’t be mentioned here as it might violate some kind of imaginary ‘safe space’ erected by an ideology that has modernly called for the creation of “safe spaces” on college campuses.

The big government crowd wants Washington to oversee a “decoupling” of “America” from said country. Even though countries don’t trade, but profit-motivated businesses do, those who lean toward statism and who are troubled by said country think it best if the federal government forces a break-up. It doesn’t matter that private property rights and freedom of economic association have long been a major driver of prosperity in the U.S.; what matters to those triggered by this unnamed country is that government oversee the ending of private economic exchange.

Their excuse for using more government in the U.S. to beat up on a government and economy somewhere else is that the country they disdain is a “communist” country run by communists. It seems more than a few proponents of muscular government are too young to remember that when actual communists used to run countries, there was never a particular need to oversee an economic “decoupling” of “America” from those countries. That was the case simply because those countries run by actual communists were defined by so little production as to not be worth “America’s” time from an economic perspective.

In this country that proponents of a bigger U.S. federal state want government to wrest “American” businesses from, American businesses are everywhere. A ride down any street in the country’s cities (it has eight larger than New York City) includes non-stop sightings of McDonald’s, Starbucks, Apple, Polo, Nike, and Kentucky Fried Chicken signs; among many others. You see, this “communist” country that those seeking government intervention to pull “America” out of is presently the largest foreign market for the world’s greatest companies; meaning American companies.

According to those in their “safe spaces,” the country that U.S. businesses are aggressively investing in and expanding in in order to create profits for voluntary shareholders is full of thieves that are stealing intellectual property (IP) from “American” businesses unbeknownst to those businesses. The only individuals who know about the theft are those same individuals tucked away in their “safe spaces,” far from where actual commerce takes place.

It’s seemingly never occurred to those comfortably cocooned, but who claim to see clearly what the world’s greatest businesses do not, that anyone even passably aware of which American corporations had the most valuable “intellectual property” could visit New York City capital allocators on a Monday morning, and have billions to invest by Monday afternoon. It’s extraordinarily hard to know what is good or worthless IP, the best businesses would sheepishly admit they’re routinely wrong about what has value, Jeff Bezos admits he’s spent many billions on some really bad ideas, but it’s apparently easy for those triggered by a country that will go nameless to spot what’s valuable versus what is worthless. This communist country is stealing valuable IP from “America,” and these proponents of government meddling in private economic activity want government to do something about it.

The unnamed “communist” country has a corporation based within it that is the biggest seller of smartphones in the world. The major news outlets reported the latter last week. According to those ensconced in the safest of spaces, said company is a puppet of said country’s “communist” government, plus the source of its capital is that same “communist” government. It’s fascinating.

The reason why it’s fascinating is that these loud proponents of government intervention to protect “America” from this “puppet” of the state are ignoring what free market types have always said; that government-run anything is awful; defined by tragically bad service and antiquated products. Free market ideologues have routinely made the correct point that the Post Offices and DMVs that bring on dread in Americans of all stripes are that way precisely because they’re subsidized by government. Why won’t the big government crowd listen to the free market crowd about this country and its businesses?

Free market types have also long made a case that government support weakens its intended beneficiaries precisely because it shields them from the often blunt market signals and stupendous failures that power progress. It’s so logical, but dealing with the big government crowd has always been a challenge. There are no shades of gray with those who think government the answer to every presumed problem. As they see it, this “communist” country’s businesses are absolutely made much more powerful and innovative by government help and guidance. Free market types might ask those triggered by the unnamed country if maybe the communist bureaucrats from the unnamed country should be invited to the U.S. to fix its healthcare system. Why not? If the government there can create world-class businesses in other fields, unlike any other government in the history of commerce, why not give it a run at U.S. healthcare?

Those who see a role for government in all areas of commerce might agree, at least in theory, but said “communist” country is also creating innovative businesses that attract copious global investor interest (oddly the opposite of what happened when 20th century communist countries once dotted the global landscape). This is a problem for the expanded government crowd simply because the state is apparently only creating these companies in order to spy on Americans. Recently a globally popular app from this “communist” country, one that could claim a market cap well into the billions, and that is most famous for its short dance videos, was threatened with a ban by a lover of all things “laissez faire” U.S. president. Sensing it was about to be mugged, this allegedly “communist” creation that lefty big government types said was “harvesting unnecessary levels of information” for the communist country’s government was in talks about entering into an emergency agreement to be acquired by Microsoft.

Why didn’t the liberal left listen to free market types about the matter? They could have explained to them that a company allegedly “harvesting unnecessary levels of information” would pay for just that in the marketplace. Sure enough, Facebook’s Instagram was rolling out competition for this presumed “communist” puppet, but the “laissez faire” U.S. decided to skip the market competition part only to force a “communist” company operating under a “civil-military fusion” into the hands of an “American” company. Liberals cheered the mugging of this commie corporation care of a “laissez faire” president they normally disagree with, but free market types could have explained to them that no company this popular could possibly be a creation of the state; thus rendering needless a federal action that a surely left wing editorial page laughably described as “the market increasing business competition and solving a political problem at the same time.”

Also, we can’t forget what’s already been discussed; that lefties over the last several years had in overnight fashion made a regular case that this “communist” country bereft of creativity was stealing ideas and business practices from U.S. companies. So why was this commie business first to a social media concept well ahead of companies in the “laissez faire” U.S., and why was the “laissez faire” U.S. federal government essentially forcing a sale (some would call this theft…) of this commie business to an American company?

Thinking about all this more broadly, and ignoring how U.S. social media companies thankfully harvest information of users in order to meet the needs of those users better, did it ever occur to the hard left wingers triggered by the success of a surely “communist” business aiding a “communist” government to ask what the communist government could possibly want to spy on? Really, the historically laissez faire country has been conducting its own voluntary economic suicide over the last several months; all over a virus. Had they listened to free market types once again, they would have understood that the virus wasn’t terribly threatening, but that even if it had been threatening, the latter would have existed as an even better argument for the laissez faire country to do nothing. Really, what about potential sickness or death requires laws to avoid? Those lefties kept blaming the “communist” country for having spread the virus to the U.S. in nefarious fashion. Never asked was why, if the commies wanted to bring the U.S. harm, they would design a virus that half didn’t know they’d been exposed to, and that largely spared just about everyone exposed to it. Somehow a communist government would feel threatened by a country exceedingly eager to wreck itself over something that most everyone – regardless of age – survives?

Further ignored is that this “communist” country, quite unlike every other communist country in history, is dense with businesses that generate a huge portion of their sales in “America.” Yet those dopey liberals claim the “communist” country wants to destroy its best businesses by destroying “America”?

It’s all very strange. That’s why it’s best to not bring this “communist” country up with those glass-jawed lefties. This “communist” country has taken up enormous space in their heads, and is causing them to retract all that they’ve long believed. They’re sensitive about it, so don’t invade their safe spaces. In fact, don’t even bring said country up.

But wait, there’s been a major, essay-long typo. It’s actually conservatives who are triggered by and hiding in their safe spaces from reasonable discussion about this “communist” country. It’s conservatives who want muscular government meddling in the global economy and the theft of private businesses hatched in the “communist” country. Oh dear. Nevermind.

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