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Rent seeking through regulations designed explicitly to eliminate competition is not suddenly ok because you perceive them as "blue collar." It's unreal that p
by mason240 11y ago
Rent seeking through regulations designed explicitly to eliminate competition is not suddenly ok because you perceive them as "blue collar."
It's unreal that people would attempt to defend this.
- pron 11y agoI guess that depends on the values you hold, doesn't it? For many of us, there are some values that occasionally trump that of unrestricted competition, and many of us believe that sometimes free competition reduces freedom rather than increases it.
- mason240 11y agoMore accurately, there are a few of you that support rent-seeking.
- pron 11y agoOr even more accurately, many of us think that it is possible to conceive of things worse than rent-seeking, and so in some circumstances it is possible that a reasonable amount of it may be the lesser of two evils (just as accepting killing in self defense is not the same as "supporting murder"). Others, of course, may believe that there can be nothing worse.