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It has nothing to do with the free market. The reason people don't trust utopians is they tend to leave big piles of bodies in their wake.
by gozur88 11y ago
It has nothing to do with the free market. The reason people don't trust utopians is they tend to leave big piles of bodies in their wake.
- RobertoG 11y agoThat's a little unfair to utopians. I think that what happens is that people only listen to calls for utopia when they are discontent. This discontent is used by ambitious characters to take power, frequently in the name of utopia. Free market proponents are frequently utopians themselves.
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- jwhitlark 11y agoWhile you make a valid point, one of the major problems with utopian visions is they offer an infinite good, so they give cover to commit anything up to infinite evil. I think offering paradise throws our moral calculations out of whack, which is one reason they do seem to lead to large numbers of casualties.
- alanwatts 11y agoWhat exactly do you mean by "the free market"?
- my5thaccount 11y agoThe first thing we need to do is reject the myth of the free market. There is no free market. It's never worked. There is no existing free market in the world and no one appreciates the consequences of it. A free market would equate to anarchy and very few want that even its proponents.
- gozur88 11y agoA free market doesn't mean anarchy. Like all freedoms, economic freedom is a range. In practice, the closer we are to the "free" side, the better things work.