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Which is, again, a belief you can have. Just don't call it a free market, call it what it is: a forced/captive market. If you really believe that poverty is th
by danShumway 5y ago
Which is, again, a belief you can have. Just don't call it a free market, call it what it is: a forced/captive market.
If you really believe that poverty is the only motivator, then fine. Just own it, don't argue that motivating people through threats of poverty somehow makes them more free.
- josephcsible 5y agoHow does that make it not a free market? You're not getting tossed in a gulag for refusing to work.
- danShumway 5y agoYour belief is that if people aren't scared of poverty they won't work. Literally you are saying if they're not forced to work by the threat of poverty, they won't. And of course being forced to work isn't voluntary. Now we don't have debtors prison, so nobody is actively going to take them and throw them into a gulag, but I already talked quite a bit about why that distinction doesn't matter above, so not sure what to say other than go back and reread previous comments if it's something you're confused about.