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Of course money is always an option. I dont carry a liaf of bread around with me. I don't believe we should only give to fellow church members either. We have helped neighbors and others who we knew were having a hard time with something.
Look i dont care what its called. I know what I support. No I'm not describing neoliberalism.
Those examples wouldn't work in alleviating global poverty anyway. I'm not sure why you felt any of those methods would be necessary.
That's a certainty, because if Christians gave away all they have, they would become impoverished.
Yet you argue for a system in which pay and working conditions are set unilaterally by the employer and the worker can only take it or leave it. Forget for a moment about whether that's right and wrong or "left" or "right" We're just discussing what that model is called, and it is not technically a free market in labor, even if it turns out to be the best one. Mind you, there is nothing "magical" about a free market. It's not an ideology, merely a theoretical model which is rarely perfectly achieved and is in fact not really suitable for the delivery of every good or service.
I wasn't arguing for anything. I was just indicating what is. And there is nothing preventing an employee asking for more pay. Right now in the system we have an employee can sit with an employer and unilaterally figure something out. Even in a free market the employer can say no, correct? In free market the employer still can set a wage limit or limits on benefits and conditions.
I don't think we can ever be free of government regulation. Nor should we be. No regulation could be disastrous on many levels Some regulation is necessary. But we are over regulated now which also has negative effects. A balance needs to found.
During the post-Covid inflation period when food prices were rising even faster it was said that five companies control 80% of our groceries. Actual research shows that this is not quite right--it's four companies that control 79% of the most widely purchased staples, but you get the idea.
