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A foreign adversary injected a toxic application into our country, but because "people really like it" the government has no right to stop it? This is 21st cent
by tjs8rj 4y ago
A foreign adversary injected a toxic application into our country, but because "people really like it" the government has no right to stop it? This is 21st century opium wars. Leaving the addicts to decide policies based on "let people be addicted" isn't a valid point.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoIf people aren't capable of signaling value based on market participation, then why have free-market capitalism at all? The two are fundamentally intertwined in an inseparable belief that people can make rational decisions that benefit themselves as individuals and which aggregate into a social good.
- uptownfunk 4y agoYes exactly, unfortunately people don’t understand this.