How is laissez faire supposed to work ?

[Gwak]

I'm playing as Germany. I have >20% industrialists with very high opinion. I'm the ultimate capitalist country and yet, when I go laissez faire, for some reason, I always end up having 80% of the construction pool.

Am I getting something wrong ? Could someone explain to me how is laissez faire supposed to work ?

[Kayeka]

Well, if the investors can't find anything productive to invest in, the investment pool will be used on privitisation instead.

Also, when you initially switch over to laissez faire, all government businesses will be forced to privatise immediately. If the amount of government businesses is significant, than the process might leave little investment money for new buildings.

[Gwak]

So I should constantly demand maxxing ? I assume free trade would be beneficial as far as laissez faire is concerned.
Also, I had quite a lot of government businesses when I switched to laissez faire and, as you said, "the process might leave little investment money for new buildings". Will investors "grow" back their investment money over time ?

[Kayeka]

Originally posted by Gwak:

So I should constantly demand maxxing ? I assume free trade would be beneficial as far as laissez faire is concerned.
Also, I had quite a lot of government businesses when I switched to laissez faire and, as you said, "the process might leave little investment money for new buildings". Will investors "grow" back their investment money over time ?

Don't need to max demand for a business to be productive. Just make sure the raw materials going in are somewhat cheap. And yeah, Free Trade is, at the very least, thematic, and makes it so that more goods move in and out of your market, though it means you no longer have get to use tariffs for control.

As for the investment pool, it will indeed grow back once all your government businesses have been bought up. That's just kind of how the investment pool works: Your upper-class makes money, they dump some of that money into the investment pool, which is used to build or privatise more businesses, which makes the upper-class more money.

You can see how much money is available in the investment pool, as well as how much is being gained or spent in the building menu. It's useful to keep an eye on, if only to get a good sense of when it's time to expand your construction sector.

[Gwak]

All right thanks for the answer