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I’m actually way more familiar with it than I come across. I was a Mises Institute member briefly, including attending a Ron Paul event they hosted. I think “D
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
I’m actually way more familiar with it than I come across. I was a Mises Institute member briefly, including attending a Ron Paul event they hosted.
I think “Democracy the God that failed” was the final straw where I was like “this is basically advocating for private kinghoods”
If you extrapolate, then you basically get Amazon, United Health, and 8 other companies with their own currencies and mercenary armies and all manner nonsense that winds up basically just looking like a Corporate wasteland as described by Mike Judge
And frankly we’re pretty close -with Apple Cash and Apple hiring city and municipal police to guard stores the transition is effectively complete
- galaxyofdoom 3y ago[dead]
- nonrandomstring 3y agoIsn't the term people are clutching for "lawlessness" If anything defines the current epoch it is "post-legal". For example, massive fines, now in the billions of dollars, pay superficial lip-service to laws, but for mega-corps are simply the cost of doing business. The irony of course is that giant monopolies exist only because the protection the rule of law bestows allows that. They are _very_ vulnerable. If we interpret "take on monopolies" using their own rules, they'd be hacked off the grid in weeks if not days.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI think it’s really just garden variety Regulatory Capture that’s now just endemic The problem is congressman all want to get rich now, and Congress is a path to riches, whereas it was not always so directly the case