Journal DaedalusHKX's Journal: If we truly had a "free market" THIS wouldn't occur. 23
http://courierpress.com/news/2007/nov/15/liberty-dollar-office-raided/
So to those who say "the free market doesn't work"... I must ask... how is this "free"? I have known more than few individuals who dealt with this company and none seem to have been "cheated" or dealt with in a way that warrants a Jack Booted Thug squad kicking in this particular door.
Questions, answers? I'm as curious as you are how someone will sell me the "free markets are evil" concept, when none of us have yet seen a "free market" outside of black markets fulfilling needs or wants (especially those that harm nobody but the user of the thing in question) that the government has prohibited (and the list of prohibitions is quite long.)
Free markets aren't evil (Score:2)
In case you link to, what the governme
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As for price controls against these monopolies, if the people are so stupid, ignorant and lacking in foresight, no amount of government planning will deny them the fruits of their stupidity. I've n
Dostoyevsky (Score:2)
Read Notes from Underground. Despite what the disciples of Ayn Rand might have you believe, Dostoyevsky explains how we don't always act in our own best interest. Of course, he also explains why there will never be a perfect system (be it Marxist communism or Randist capitalism).
From what you've written, I think you'll easily understand his point.
Of course, I understand... however. (Score:2)
Otherwise I would fully agree with you. However, I'm not a fan of being forced into things. Couldn't stand it as a child, couldn't stand it as a teen, can't stand it now
I prefer to be free (Score:2)
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If it hadn't been for government involvement, you would be able to rehabilitate your garden (grow hemp for a few growth cycles, without going to prison, that is) or farmland... you could grow, buy, sell, eat, drink, smoke, whatever you damn please. We have NEVER had a system where there wasn't heavy handed control. And thus those with money merely made the system friendlier to themselves, so the rest of the sheep got pissed. Until the mass man (who is hopeless
It doesn't work like that (Score:2)
It's a nice concept you have there, just like "from everyone according to their abilities and to everyone according to their needs". Problem is, it can't happen. You remove government regulation and you get (rich) th
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What government is (Score:2)
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If you elect them, you cannot fight them. You've already given them PERMISSION to abuse you.
As for "voice", I saw voice. Every election we swap one group of assholes for another. Next year they tell you who you can have sex with. The year after that, a different group tells you what you can eat or drink or what kind of doctor you have "permission" to see (they're all butchers and drug dealers but they have license to kill you slowly, unlike the guys fro
The above comment is not meant to insult you... so (Score:2)
But hopefully it gets some skulls warm with thought on the issue.
It's easy to be pessimistic (Score:2)
Except, the trend seems to be the other way. Used to be, you couldn't marry outside your race in most states (if not all). Now you can't marry someone of the same sex in most states (used to be all). I'm betting that 100 years from now (if not less), all states will allow same sex marriage, although there will still be a few citizens who look on it with disgust (much like some do today with mixed races). I know that it moves with fits and starts, but I thi
Don't worry (Score:2)
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So I disagree. I wish my father could "exploit" me, as you think it.
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Pro-sweat shop? (Score:2)
But the "laws" didn't stop anything. (Score:2)
All "the law" did was stop honest people from exercising THEIR wills (me and mine for that example). Murder is a crime, yet murder occurs all over the world where it is illegal. Rape is a crime yet it still occurs. All crimes continue to occ
The laws stopped a lot (Score:2)
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Everything that is licensed is subject to ownership or at least total control by the licensor. If you are "licensed to marry" that is why the state can come in and take your kids, or confiscate property or otherwise "regulate" your life. The reason gays and other groups are allowed to marry was because the control machine failed at outright prohibition (as it always does) but it made the now "lesser of the two" (direct control via licensing)
FFS (Score:2)
Second, I think Spun explained quite neatly how true, unrestricted capitalism would just quickly grow out of control, in the other thread you two were sparring in.
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Some of the sites I link to aren't all that big, some have banned slashdot as URL referer, and I personally don't care to test whether they do or don't.
Besides, whether its a hyperlink or a copy and paste link, 90% of the time, nobody RTFA anyways.
Fun stuff to argue but kind of lame when they only