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    Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
    Problems of human frailty are exacerbated by concentrating power. In capitalism, a selfish asshole does selfish things with his own property. In politics, the same selfish asshole does the same selfish things with everyone's property.
    So how will the free market prevent politics from returning?

    edit As a neophyte philosopher of Economics, it also seems to me that capitalism has a lot of mechanisms for the concentration of wealth. And when you concentrate wealth, you concentrate power and when you concentrate power, you approach something like politics.
    Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 09-24-2015 at 05:35 PM.
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