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I'm tired of market worship and holding the "rights" of business owners over the rights of everyone else. There are very few true markets, and that's not due t
by camgunz 9y ago
I'm tired of market worship and holding the "rights" of business owners over the rights of everyone else. There are very few true markets, and that's not due to government intervention, it's because many goods and services become essential to modern life, or marketers artificially stratify in an effort to squeeze more money out of upper class consumers. Like what's the lightbulb market like these days? Toothbrushes? Sheets? It's all artificially stratified.
But let's say we allow businesses to not sell lightbulbs to White people. Hey it's their right, right? Then let's say that in practically all regions the majority of retailers would assert this right, making it pretty hard for Whites to buy lights ;). In what way is that good for society? What healthy, just society would allow that?
Libertarian ideas like this are all fatally reductive, and they fail entirely when evaluated on their effects on anyone who isn't the majority. Not everyone starts with the same advantages. Not everyone experiences the same setbacks and barriers throughout their lives. Unless we make policies to specifically correct these inequalities, we entrench them. Oh and hey look, that's exactly what we have in the US. It's not a coincidence.