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The Sherman Antitrust Act is authoritarian policy? Nobody is saying to blindly copy China.

• brap 4y ago
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  • 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    Explain your reasoning, I'm interested.
  • digdugdirk 4y ago
    While I wholeheartedly disagree with you, I'm curious as to your reasoning why. Would you mind explaining your controversial opinion?
  • uoaei 4y ago
    Technically true, I guess, but only in the narrow sense that it is opposite to libertarianism. But this is the kind of freedom (absolute de-regulation) that nullifies the freedoms of others (agency in the market). Overall the first is more deleterious than the others, and removing it causes far fewer victims and far more upsides.
    • KyeRussell 4y ago
      Yep. This is why a certain sort of libertarianism attracts a certain sort of (sheltered, systems-obsessed) engineer type. The run-on consequences and hidden contradictions of libertarianism make the whole thing fall apart, but the definition of the system, in its own language, isn’t aware of itself.
      • uoaei 4y ago
        Which is ironic considering [complex] systems [like large economies] in the real world are all about nth-order effects. Anyone doing a solely first-order analysis is simply misunderstanding what systems are and can be.
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  • humanistbot 4y ago
    When you explain your position as others have asked you to, please also discuss whether you think taxation is authoritarian.