(February 1, 2018 at 6:25 pm)shadow Wrote: I'll put exactly the right amount of trust into free market capitalism - you have to prevent failures of the free market (extremely interesting topic IMO). It's the field I find the most interesting to study, personally. I love striking that balance... seeing how the corporations are so cleverly exploiting things, and devising regulations that actually prevent them, but not interfering more than what keeps the playing field even. There is plenty of regulation to be had, and plenty we're missing (like a huge amount of environmental regulation!). But it just shouldn't be excessive in any way.
That's basically where I stand on the issue. You can write it off as me being a libertarian, but really I just see there being so much power in free markets, that it would be a crying shame to have a purely socialist society, where you lose all of that beautiful efficiency.
First of all let me say that the only political views I completely write off are ignorance (not technically a political view, but certainly a voter demographic) and fascism which you are neither. In fact, we are both anti-authoritarian, so we're on the same page there. I respect your view regardless of the fact I disagree on unbridled capitalism.
Look, from 1880-1910, American workers had a hell of a time. If capitalism worked so well without regulation those should have been the times when everyone was living the high life, but it was horrible.
Libertarians get this gleam in their eye when they think of unregulated capitalism like it's going to open doors for everyone everywhere.
And whats with this "we need less regulation" stuff? Granted, there are regulations that mess with efficacy, but I think the task at hand there is to figure out precicely which regulations need to go and work from there. Some laws are unjust-- it's true. But if that's the case, you don't hear people say "Y'know, we need less laws." That's because there's important laws like murder and theft laws that keep us all safe. So it is with regulations.
