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Total government economic control is called
Communism, and must always take the form of Socialist fascism, since it is too extreme and subject to control by the few. Total control by private capitalists, because wealth and power concentrates, always results in Authoritarian governments for the few eventually.
Thus the argument is how much of the economy should be controlled by government and how much by private economic interests. Socialists might have it that everything that every citizen uses in common should be owned and operated by the government, which might include such as fuel, energy, water, sewage, communications, food, health, unemployment and welfare, roads and bridges and retirement, which may or may be supplemented by private enterprise. Capitalists might have it that nothing should be owned by the government, even though they depend on government for roads, police, fire, law courts, and currency as well as a host of other services.
The primary problem of privately owned economies is the tendency to concentrated ownership, exclusivity and exacerbated class division. Most private individuals want to become as rich as possible which produces exclusivity in and of itself. Wealth must be a private protectorate, as to preserve it from the community at large, and thus its possession must separate itself from the general community as a Part or external elite authority. Wealth concentrates and the wealthy become exclusive and use their wealth to influence government to favor their exclusivity, which is really necessary to preserve their way of life. A mixed economy is always the best where the government is Socialist and Conservative and private interest is Capitalist and Progressive. The question is how much Conservative and how much Progressive?
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