Comment Re:Exploitation is the most prized product (Score 1) 944
The purest form of economic freedom exists when all forms of robbery are "legal"
*f it is economic freedom to pay-for-wages what will not allow existance, it is economic freedom to secure life-sustaining goods by ANY means.
The economic freedom posited by those with econmic "means" is simply an excuse to use force-of-law to procure goods via economic "violence" while other forms of procuring goods are made illegal.
If it is accepted to use law to force the poor to starve their children, that becomes legally sanctioned economic violence.
Just as we have laws to protect the goods of the wealthy agaist "gun barrel economics", we can and should have laws to protect the lives of the poor against "pocketbook violence".
The ultimate result of prolonged economic violence is physical violence, in the form of bloody revolt.
Just ask Marie Antoinette.