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How could you not care if people are treated unfairly? This is not a good baseline value that we can all share. Are we all going to hope that other people, who
by CryptoPunk 5y ago
How could you not care if people are treated unfairly? This is not a good baseline value that we can all share. Are we all going to hope that other people, who disagree with us on some social or business issue, are treated unfairly? Is politics going to be relegated to a forum to wage a never-ending battle against each other?
How about live and let live?
- aww_dang 5y agoApparently for many here, subjective interpretations of "social good" trump the basic premises of voluntary interactions and natural law. Contrast those views with decentralized and non-violent valuations provided by voluntary consumption.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoI mean, I don't think it advances my understanding of the "social good" for people to consume billions of dollars of pop-culture entertainment in the form of the Kardashians, Youtube reality-TV celebrities etc, but in no semblance of a free society do I express that preference through punitive government measures against the people expending their resources on that.
- aww_dang 5y agoBy allowing a decentralized market based system to ascribe value to these things we avoid the problem of imposing our subjective value judgments on others. It may not be perfect, but it is more humane and productive than central planning. Imagine the democratic alternative, where the masses vote that watching the Kardashians is compulsory. Or that your own niche interests are prohibited.