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I don't think that is ever really the argument made by that kind of economics. Even the most extreme free marketeers like Walter Block (author of "Defending th
by HPsquared 1y ago
I don't think that is ever really the argument made by that kind of economics.
Even the most extreme free marketeers like Walter Block (author of "Defending the Undefendable") talk about pollution as a violation of private property. Climate change as a result of pollution definitely would come under that kind of argument. They would just say it's a matter for the courts, like everyone affected should sue the people who emit the pollution or something like that (yes it's not a very practical ideology when you get into things like that)
- arp242 1y agoBut businesses aren't run that way, so whatever some abstract theorist like Walter Block may say is not really relevant for the day-to-day reality of things. And I've seen "anything market-rational is also moral"-shaped argument many times: on HN, in newspapers, company responses to criticism, pretty much any time someone defends crypto's negative effects.