Jimmy rustling title aside, the video is a concise explanation of how private markets regulate product safety better than government monopoly does
09-05-2014 08:03 PM
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Government is obsoleteJimmy rustling title aside, the video is a concise explanation of how private markets regulate product safety better than government monopoly does |
09-05-2014 09:16 PM
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I agree completely. | |
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09-05-2014 09:27 PM
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Spoon is obsolete |
09-05-2014 11:46 PM
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Damn I was hoping this would be a thread about anarchy or something equally as interesting. | |
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09-05-2014 11:51 PM
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That felt like half an hour. | |
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09-06-2014 12:00 AM
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Thank you for the ongpinion |
09-06-2014 12:01 AM
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You're wufcome. | |
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09-06-2014 12:01 AM
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It's welwugy |
09-06-2014 01:18 AM
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I found this video to be aesthetically pleasing. | |
09-06-2014 01:27 AM
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09-06-2014 04:25 AM
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good video | |
09-06-2014 06:59 AM
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Learnliberty does a great job of simply explaining concepts to people without the standard dickbertarian tone that turns so many people off. | |
09-06-2014 09:08 AM
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Maybe you have to be American to not find his accent really fucking annoying. Are you all American? | |
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09-06-2014 12:39 PM
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Silly question perhaps but how does a free market without goverment respond to a threat like ISIS appearing at their doorstep? Or even a similar threat originating from within? How would you credibly engage in the ever so important international relations without an effective government? | |
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09-06-2014 01:04 PM
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09-06-2014 02:30 PM
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09-06-2014 03:20 PM
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It's a great question. I don't know how well I can answer it because I haven't seen it discussed enough to flesh out my viewpoint. The majority of old school free market proponents are/were supportive of state defense. So they never discussed the idea, but that doesn't mean they weren't wrong. Renton is correct in how abstract it is since it's not something we'll change in our lifetimes. However, understanding it philosophically can do a lot of good, so it is an important question to answer |
09-06-2014 03:25 PM
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That said, when dealing with a relatively primitive economy, government becomes the most efficient way to establish defense. This is the reason we have governments today. The state arose from a need to defend against other states, and for the most part it has served no other purpose. The concept is quickly becoming obsolete today since the amount of wealth many different private enterprises command is enormous. For most of history, wealth was not something born of enterprise, but something controlled by state actors through force |
09-06-2014 03:42 PM
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As a matter of policy, I support just a gradual pullback from the Truman Doctrine but still an iron fist on non-proliferation of nuclear arms. |
09-06-2014 03:49 PM
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09-06-2014 04:24 PM
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09-06-2014 04:25 PM
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09-06-2014 07:03 PM
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All three of these are fantastic and I encourage anybody interested to watch them. However, they do not address two important questions that many non-libertarians ask: (1) what happens when people choose to pay for no insurance or when they're too poor to purchase any in the first place, and (2) what happens when a group of powerful entities decide to overthrow the system and establish a government |
09-06-2014 07:17 PM
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I see how corporations are able to police themselves without government interference. Corporations paid off the credit rating agency to give them a good rating, then have government soak up the oil spill they created when everything collapsed from mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Too bad there is a government. Would have been glad to see some of these monopolies fail. |
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09-06-2014 07:17 PM
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What happens when wuf stops posting threads about his hatred of government? |
09-06-2014 07:55 PM
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09-06-2014 07:59 PM
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