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Your political views
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RE: Your political views
(December 15, 2010 at 1:45 am)Micah Wrote: In an Anarcho-Capitalist (minarchist) ran economy you don't have plutocracies or monopolies. Government intervention in the economy accounts for those. If you have a true lasseiz-faire economy, which the U.S.A. most certainly has not had, the market does not allow for plutocracies.
In a lasseiz-faire economy:
How would the market stop a monopoly from forming?
How would the market stop companies from keeping its employees in an endless pay loop where their cost of living is greater than their pay (which the company is glad to pick up as long as they stay employed.)
How would the small government keep the air clean enough to avoid major health risks?
How would the market make sure that the toys don't have lead paint in them?
How would the market solve this health-insurance healthcare debacle that the US recently passed a law about? The one where insurance companies rig the healthcare system to where they have a collective monopoly, can jack up their own prices on a whim, and cut people out of their program for getting sick.

The answer is that the market has no power over (and in fact promotes) these things. This is because good capitalists know that most of these stops can be circumvented and controlled. Disasters, shoddy products, and dangerous products can leak out into the marketplace and do damage long before there is even any kind of warning. Even with a watchdog group (a private one, since there would be no government body regulating anything) and assuming that they couldn't be bought off or otherwise removed from being important wouldn't be able to prevent the damage from being done beyond simply informing the public (likely at a marginal fee).

This isn't even to mention the fact that a monopoly has total control over an entire market and can quash any competition that manages to come along.

I'm not even going to begin to tread on how this sort of system is going to create an enormous wealth gap between the richest and poorest.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

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Your political views - by Justtristo - December 14, 2010 at 6:01 am
RE: Your political views - by Tiberius - December 14, 2010 at 6:13 am
RE: Your political views - by Jaysyn - December 14, 2010 at 6:29 am
RE: Your political views - by lrh9 - December 14, 2010 at 6:29 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 14, 2010 at 7:39 am
RE: Your political views - by leo-rcc - December 14, 2010 at 10:36 am
RE: Your political views - by Valkyrie - December 14, 2010 at 10:49 am
RE: Your political views - by DeistPaladin - December 14, 2010 at 3:36 pm
RE: Your political views - by Justtristo - December 15, 2010 at 12:03 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 14, 2010 at 10:52 am
RE: Your political views - by Valkyrie - December 15, 2010 at 10:45 am
RE: Your political views - by DeistPaladin - December 15, 2010 at 11:33 am
RE: Your political views - by lilyannerose - December 14, 2010 at 11:18 am
RE: Your political views - by Light of Truth - December 14, 2010 at 3:23 pm
RE: Your political views - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 15, 2010 at 12:21 am
RE: Your political views - by Light of Truth - December 15, 2010 at 1:45 am
RE: Your political views - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 15, 2010 at 2:13 am
RE: Your political views - by Light of Truth - December 15, 2010 at 2:44 am
RE: Your political views - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 15, 2010 at 3:10 am
RE: Your political views - by Light of Truth - December 16, 2010 at 6:28 am
RE: Your political views - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 16, 2010 at 3:18 pm
RE: Your political views - by LWP17 - December 15, 2010 at 1:30 am
RE: Your political views - by padraic - December 15, 2010 at 1:55 am
RE: Your political views - by Jaysyn - December 15, 2010 at 6:45 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 15, 2010 at 7:32 am
RE: Your political views - by lilyannerose - December 15, 2010 at 8:01 am
RE: Your political views - by Valkyrie - December 16, 2010 at 10:21 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 15, 2010 at 9:04 am
RE: Your political views - by lilyannerose - December 15, 2010 at 11:02 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 15, 2010 at 11:36 am
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 15, 2010 at 11:23 am
RE: Your political views - by technophobe - December 15, 2010 at 6:44 pm
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 15, 2010 at 6:54 pm
RE: Your political views - by theVOID - December 16, 2010 at 10:55 am
RE: Your political views - by Ubermensch - December 19, 2010 at 2:47 pm
RE: Your political views - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 19, 2010 at 6:16 pm
RE: Your political views - by Ubermensch - December 20, 2010 at 11:38 am
RE: Your political views - by Jaysyn - December 20, 2010 at 11:55 am
RE: Your political views - by lrh9 - December 20, 2010 at 1:02 am
RE: Your political views - by Ubermensch - December 20, 2010 at 12:33 pm
RE: Your political views - by Jaysyn - December 20, 2010 at 12:38 pm
RE: Your political views - by Ubermensch - December 20, 2010 at 3:13 pm

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