Marxist Exploiters

[Koolay]

The right wing tend to be dumb socio-paths, the left wing tend to be more intellectual exploiters. They are different breeds of the same evil family, both right wing and left wing have a burning hatred of voluntarism and the free market, the only difference is the rhetoric, in reality you still have to pay them off so you do not get thrown in a cage.

This is the kind of nonsense that pisses me off, because it's stupidly over-generalizing. Right-wingers don't tend to be sociopathic, neither do the left-wing tend to be 'intellectual exploiters'. Asserting it is the case does not an argument make.

The free market has many practical and conceptual problems which I know you've been told by every other user a million times.

Centrists tend to be whiny pricks who do nothing, complain about everything and have no actual, coherent ideas as to solutions for supposed problems... oh wait I'm over-generalizing, that's just you. -_-

Well listen, every time someone brings up a problem with the free market, it usually falls into one or two categories;

1. They are complaining about private entities that are enforced or protected by the government. I.e the banking cartel. People would blame banks for getting subsidies and bailouts from the government, when it is in actual fact that the government is taking people's money and distributing it to who they like. Banks like this would not exist in the free market, since no one in the free market could forcibly take people's money and give it to special interest groups. If the Mafia takes our money, and gives some of the money to certain people, let's not blame the recipient, but the person stealing the money in the first place.

2. They are complaining about lack of market demand. "There is no wal-mart outside my door, so the market has failed". The market serves no individual, but serves the needs and desires of the people as a whole, not randomly favouring individuals.

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So you people are saying that someone that has never worked a day in his life in the free market knows as much about the free market as someone that works in the free market for a living? It's ridiculous. Get real people, put your thinking caps on a little tighter.[quote]

Why not? I know a marine geologist who has never spent a day in the water, but she clearly knows more about the ocean than any cuttlefish.

Boru

Economics is social, it is about predicting human behaviour, and you kind of need to be in it to understand it. It's not like studying an inert landscape like the sea.