A reason not discussed much regarding why a mixed economy sucks so bad is because the workers on the socialist side use their political influence to make their lives easier while making society much worse off. I'll provide two prominent examples, but it's everywhere on the socialist side.
Two socialist institutions are police and government-run schools.
1. You'll notice that police luv drug laws. They always lobby against marijuana legalization laws. Drug laws are great for cops because it's much easier and safer to criminalize peaceful people and arrest them for possession of plant material or illegal gardening than it is to go after actual criminals. The drug war greatly ramps up police budgets, and allows the pigs to buy military equipment. The pigs also luv civil forfeiture laws and no-knock warrants, both of which are products of the drug war.
Cops lobby for bad laws which benefit them but harm society in general.
2. Teacher's unions luv adding social justice into the school curricuculum. Why? Because it benefits teachers. It's much easier to teach kids woke bullshit than it is to teach them math and English. As far as the teachers are concerned, the more woke bullshit in the curriculum the better. They would prefer to spend the entire day teaching kids that white people are villains and black people are victims. What could be easier? So again, like the cops, you have the workers in a socialist institution using their political power to make their jobs easier and society much worse off.
Two socialist institutions are police and government-run schools.
1. You'll notice that police luv drug laws. They always lobby against marijuana legalization laws. Drug laws are great for cops because it's much easier and safer to criminalize peaceful people and arrest them for possession of plant material or illegal gardening than it is to go after actual criminals. The drug war greatly ramps up police budgets, and allows the pigs to buy military equipment. The pigs also luv civil forfeiture laws and no-knock warrants, both of which are products of the drug war.
Cops lobby for bad laws which benefit them but harm society in general.
2. Teacher's unions luv adding social justice into the school curricuculum. Why? Because it benefits teachers. It's much easier to teach kids woke bullshit than it is to teach them math and English. As far as the teachers are concerned, the more woke bullshit in the curriculum the better. They would prefer to spend the entire day teaching kids that white people are villains and black people are victims. What could be easier? So again, like the cops, you have the workers in a socialist institution using their political power to make their jobs easier and society much worse off.
