Comment Re:my semi-annual rant on our economic system (Score 1) 391
Anytime someone says "It's the principle, not the money", they're lying. It's the money.
Free markets are hardly an abstract. I've been in countries where the markets are decidedly not free. Capitalism is the only system in which every person DOES control their own destiny, and has responsibility for it. As usual, the loudest objections come from those who either want a free lunch, or feel that they should decide how much I should pay for my lunch - with a little cut for them, of course.
