Comment Re:Just doing their job. (Score 1) 136
He wasn't saying you need 'civil war' to bring socialism to a country.
He was explaining that socialist means always involve using police force to achieve their ends, given that they're not voluntary.
He wasn't saying you need 'civil war' to bring socialism to a country.
He was explaining that socialist means always involve using police force to achieve their ends, given that they're not voluntary.
Worse, how many mortgages to they 'own' now through fanny and freddy? (they? us? me? who owns this nasty shit and is on the hook for it?)
Worse still, the fed controls interest rates.
We're so far removed from a free market it ain't even funny. Why was there a 2008 crash? Why do we keep seeing bubbles? Why haven't we recovered yet? Why was 1999 a bubble? What's the next bubble? Who's buying bonds? Why aren't unfunded liabilities listed as government debt? How much do unborn children owe? How long till the dollar collapses?
There are some voluntary interactions, but it ain't no free market.
Cue young earth creationists claiming this dinosaur was intelligently designed 5000 years ago.
Sigh.
Give me pogo sticks and super shoes.
Make me a set of oscar pistorious legs and some type of new car suspension.
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I'm glad when people post links to Mises, because it's a great way to know that you can avoid reading any of their posts.
Hahaha, does that happen often?
You think they're going to come up with 1600M euro in June? LO to the L.
Russia can't afford to help them with this payment, Greece is dead broke and Goldman Sachs who helped Greece lie about their books to get into the eurozone in the first place is long gone.
I have spent more than a few hours thinking and reading on the subject and so I will attempt to answer your questions. Apologies if they're not great answers. Hey, at least they're honest and a little better than the highly moderated comments here.
Ok, since you have such a great understanding of economics, please explain to me how it's a good thing that the Walton family has more wealth than 40% of Americans (that's 129 Million Americans) combined, yet pays their full-time workers so little that they can't afford food or a place to live without welfare and foodstamps?
I wouldn't say it's good or bad. I think walmart has both good and bad aspects.
How does it help me that my tax dollars have to subsidize Walmart employees (we're not talking about lazy drug addicts, we're talking about hardworking fulltime employees) when the company makes such huge profits?
A: it doesn't help you at all. The entire tax system is immoral. Although, I think they purposefully keep them as part-time employees (by government classifications) in order to qualify for these subsidies.
How does it help the economy when those employees can't afford to buy products that other companies manufacture and sell?
Consumption never 'helps' the economy. The economy is more than just passing money from hand to hand in exchange for consumer goods. Only the voluntary actions of individuals cooperating via a free market price system 'helps' the economy.
Or does it just benefit the 6 Waltons that are on Forbe's list of billionaires?
Don't forget all of the politicians that greased their hands making deals with all the billionaires on Forbe's list. Unfortunately it's the nature of human kind that as soon as one comes into power, the average human tends to wield it to their own advantage, especially power over others obtained by coercion and violence, hence 'government'.
Here are a few more discussions, thoughts:
Minimum Wage Argument Destroyed!
The True Cost of the Minimum Wage
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Peter Schiff and the War over Minimum Wage
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I'm starting to think that it's by design because every misconception is in favor of 'government' and people being ruled by force.
"As long as there are rulers, we can't have rules"
Because they're always going to make exceptions for themselves and their cronies, and use the rules to stick it to everyone else, while loudly decrying that they speak *for* us.....
It tasted like shit and my hand prints looked just like any other and what was the use if it anyway? Face-book? Hand-wall motherfucker. In fact we had a game we called facesmash but that was more just smashing peoples faces with sticks.
But we liked it and we didn't complain.
I choose to remain an American citizen, that choice has consequences
Oh I see, so you've resorted to the "if you don't agree with me get the fuck out of the country".
Hahaha, very mature.
Her interaction with the company and by extension the CEO was completely voluntary. She chose to interview there, negotiated a salary, chose to accept the job, chose to come to work and get paid for her time and could leave the job whenever she wanted.
What she didn't choose, was the hefty piece of her paycheck that the union stole from her. That was not voluntary.
Did the union provide a service she wanted? No. Did they pay for her school? no. Did they negotiate a better salary for her? No.
Unions are thieves and parasites who steal your money and then lord over you, pretending that they speak for you.
How many of your financial relations with corporations are voluntary on your part? (and for the ones that aren't, could it possibly be due to a government-granted monopoly?)
I'll go first:
Case closed.
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