@SecondHandStoke
“Venezuela is a tyrannical dictatorship. It’s subjects are oppressed but are to busy looking at all their free shit to realize it.”
Venezuela has the most advanced, well audited and transparent voting system in the world. One may not agree with the policy decisions of their incumbent government and president, but they have a mandate to do so that is far stronger than anything in the US or most of the rest of the world.
“The fucking STATE literally dictating how far a company can go.”
Ownership of private property, and any business upon which that ownership is based, is a privilege bestowed by the state and maintained through state power. The historical basis of private property was state coercion, and the transition to capitalism from feudalism required some of the largest transfer of land and wealth to the rich and propertied in human history—and all the misery and death that entailed—with people being beaten and murdered to move them off common lands and self-subsistence to become dependent on a wage working for rich industrialists in urban squalor.
So, when it comes to regulating private property—including profit caps and regulating prices— the state is well within its rights to dictate however it pleases, because that ownership is a privilege granted by the state in the first place, and one that the rest of society tacitly (and probably quite ignorantly) consents to.
I can understand why capitalists would bitch and whine about this, and frame this as some sort of abuse of power, but that’s because they’re protecting their interests, and in this case, it is helpful to completely ignore the historical narrative, and simply assume that their ownership of the means to wealth is an inherent right rather than a historical state coerced privilege established through death and oppression.