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"as close to capitalism as it gets" is not necessarily a good thing. As someone else pointed out, in a pure capitalism, we'd have slaves, child porn, thugs for
by hasenj 16y ago
"as close to capitalism as it gets" is not necessarily a good thing. As someone else pointed out, in a pure capitalism, we'd have slaves, child porn, thugs for hire, assassination contracts, etc.
I just got this idea right now, but I think a pure capitalism will deteriorate very quickly into a dictatorship. All it takes is for someone to accumulate enough military power so that he can take over. Assuming you can buy/sell groups of armed people and/or hire them.
- olalonde 16y agoYou've got it all wrong. Those things are the antithesis of capitalism. I really don't know where to start... May I suggest you watch this documentary: http://www.freetochoose.tv/ http://www.freetochoose.tv/
- nazgulnarsil 16y agoI can summarize. in a purely free market people won't want to do business with people who violate others' property rights since you have no guarantee they won't violate yours. traditionally, guarantees against this have been ethnic. "well I know he won't enslave me since the norm is to only enslave blacks, therefore we can both happily profit from the slave trade and are no threat to each other."