... That has lead to an increase of overall wealth for the country and an ever increasing middle class.
An ever increasing middle class? Yeah, from no middle class in 1980 via 1% middle class in 1990 and 3% middle class in 2000 to 5% middle class in 2010. Indeed, ever increasing.
Sure they are still controlled by large, corrupt, progressive government, but those things always go hand in hand with progressive governments.
By your standards, I'm probably living in a semi-communist country surrounded by fellow socialists and other assorted left-wingers. Strangely enough, corruption is almost non-existent in Northern Europe. So much for your perceived correlation between progressive government (whatever that is) and corruption.
The costs of the free market were mainly environmental, which you refuse to discuss, but were quite well addressed with the rise of the conservation movement in the mid 1960's. The other has been labor. The toll on workers was atrocious which lead to rise of labor unions which made significant grounds in improving workers conditions.
You live in a comfortably small world, don't you? Improving working conditions in the US, yes, but exporting the collective butt-rape of the working class to developing countries.
Unfortunately both the environmental and labor movement have been co-opted by leftists, in order to put a stranglehold on the free market and bring to heel all industry under government control.
If you say so, oh Grand Source of Knowledge!
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