You Don't Hate Capitalism. You Hate This. | Monologue Monday

Text the show! Americans still overwhelmingly like free enterprise. So why are they rapidly souring on capitalism? Chad argues that the anger behind America's “cost of life” crisis is real — but we're giving it the wrong name. Housing, healthcare, insurance, prescriptions and utilities consume enormous portions of American household budgets, yet many of these markets fail a basic test of competition: Can you walk away? Can you switch? Can a new competitor enter? And does losing your business actually cost the incumbent anything? In this Monologue Monday, Chad examines why young Americans are increasingly receptive to socialism, how regulation and consolidation can turn consumers into price takers, why elective medicine behaves differently from much of American healthcare, how housing regulation adds to the price of a home, and what happens when government responds with public ownership, subsidies and price controls. The answer isn't defending the status quo — and it isn't another revolution. It's a remodel: open the door, post the price, subsidize the customer instead of the seller, and make someone responsible for eliminating regulations that no longer work. You don't hate capitalism. You hate that nobody is competing for you anymore. Text Chad: 252-CHAD-LAW Everything Chad — The GAILY NEWS, the books, the Common Sense Conservative Manifesto, and more — at chadparkerlaw.com. Chapters  00:00 You Don't Hate Capitalism 03:24 America's Cost of Life Crisis 05:28 Why Young Americans Are Turning on Capitalism 08:04 We're Diagnosing the Wrong Problem 13:22 Monopoly, Collusion & Price Gouging 16:51 The Four-Question Competition Test 17:46 Why Healthcare Costs So Much 23:08 How Government Keeps Competitors Out 25:01 The $131,000 Housing Problem 28:19 What Democratic Socialists Want to Do 30:14 The Problem With the Utility Model 32:55 When Government Picks the Winner 35:03 America's Price-Control Experiment 38:24 Where Is the Free-Market Countermovement? 40:58 Four Ways to Open the Market Again