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Free markets are a game with rules set by the government. "Without using force or fraud" just means not breaking the rules of the game set by the government.
by DarylZero 5y ago
Free markets are a game with rules set by the government. "Without using force or fraud" just means not breaking the rules of the game set by the government. It's a very deceptive way to describe rule-following. It implies a very idealistic, unrealistic vision of what those rules are and how they are made.
The people who benefit most from the rules control the system, making sure rules don't change.
The benefit they receive from the rules is to be in a parasitic, extractive, predatory relationship to most of humanity.
Why not use "force or fraud" to liberate yourself from predatory relations?
- WalterBright 5y ago> just means not breaking the rules of the game set by the government You can make up your own definitions of things as you like. It's a common rhetorical device to divert a conversation into a swamp. Me, I'll stick to commonly understood meanings.
- quantum_solanum 5y agothat's literally YOUR own definition, as you said elsewhere in the thread > Free markets require a working police and justice system
- WalterBright 5y agoYou're greatly misinterpreting what I wrote. The government is needed to implement a free market. The government does not define a free market.
- DarylZero 5y ago> The government does not define a free market Complete fantasy.