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 Originally Posted by Renton
Selfish people are going to cause mayhem regardless of the economic system. I don't want to give the idea that an unfettered free market world would be devoid of evil. I just don't think private evil can go unchecked nearly as easily as public evil can. It's something I've brought up before. The state attracts sociopaths to positions where they could cause vastly more damage than would even be imaginable in the private sector.
It's not evil. It's human. And that's why more capitalism is not comparatively better than less capitalism in all cases in my mind. There's something missing in the analysis that's baked into the solutions that 'work' but don't work as well as we could imagine them to.
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