Dear Millennials: The Free Market Is Still The Best System to Meet humanity’s Needs
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Dear Millennials: The Free Market Is Still The Best System to Meet humanity’s Needs
Valerie De La Torre
Biola University
Contact: Valerie.m.delatorre@biola.edu
Dear Millennials: The Free Market Is Still The Best System to Meet humanity’s Needs
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Dear Millennials: The Free Market Is Still The Best System to Meet humanity’s Needs
Alan Dowd wrote Dear Millennials: The Free Market Is Still The Best System to Meet
humanity’s Needs, to justify capitalism as the best form of government over socialism.
Millennials are quick to judge based on news and facts given to them in the media.
Although it is normal for adults to consume relevant news on media platforms, millennials
tend to see the hurting world around them and respond by blaming the government. For
example, “Only 55% of millennials think communism was and still is a problem”. Therefore,
the other 55% of millennials support a highly centralized form of government that gives
more control to the state. As a result, the state would have authority to control production
and distribution to benefit more people than a capitalistic government would. However,
