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Why the hate? Why do people want government to own their lives? Why do they (you) believe government contains solutions when we have observed with our own eye
by battlebot 10y ago
Why the hate? Why do people want government to own their lives? Why do they (you) believe government contains solutions when we have observed with our own eyes it failing time and time again to produce worthwhile solutions to problems? And why stand in the way of commerce via onerous regulation and diktat? Is that not a Soviet style vs. an American style? I think the downvoters are simply scared and that's all.
- anigbrowl 10y agoNobody is hating on you, just expressing disagreement with a sloppy argument. I understand without fully sharing your view of government as seriously antiquated, but then you blew any credibility you had by throwing in 'marxists' as an insult. This is no more credible than a bunch of leftists trying to shut down an argument by making an umbrella insult of 'capitalists'. Marxism strikes me as an incomplete and therefore flawed socioeconomic theory, but all other economic theories have glaring deficiencies of their own. Capitalism works very well within limited parameters, but has glaring faults of its own, and market fundamentalists are capable of being just as blind and pigheaded as any Marxist I've ever encountered. We don't beat up on Adam Smith or David Ricardo despite the incomplete nature of their economic insights. Serious economists, including conservative ones, take Marx seriously without necessarily buying into all his ideas.