RE: Math has a liberal bias
January 27, 2013 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2013 at 2:28 pm by BGChuckLee.)
(January 27, 2013 at 1:59 pm)TaraJo Wrote: You realize that ebay takes a portion of any money you get from anything you sell, right? That funds their site which supports their rep system and in your metaphor, it's a lot like a tax. And that's just a measly online auction site, so imagine how much more funding would be needed for managing day to day life?
If you want to compare an anarchistic/libertarian system of government to a website, the closest I can think of would be craigslist. They don't charge anything for most adds, but they opperate totally differntly from ebay or amazon or most other websites.
No, it's not a tax- since people voluntarily choose to do business with eBay. Whereas I am taxed based on the spending of strangers because I was born in a certain geographical location which I had no control or say in. Big difference.
I've been a seller on eBay & Amazon, you get a lot for what you pay for (voluntarily). Whereas the government has programs there not only dysfunctional but evil.
£5 Billion and results worse than random- if this happened in the private sector, not only would everyone involved be sued & fired, but they wouldn't have authority to begin with. Everything the government touches turns to shit, everything the free market touches turns into something leaner and meaner. Electronics companies for example, it's fair to say- we have all benefited from their product development. Whereas there hasn't been a single historical example of a government not failing; going into war/debt.