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by aminok 10y ago
If he hadn't coded it, someone else would have. The most effective way to change the world, in my opinion, is to push for political and social changes that change incentives in a manner that reduces the number of unethical economic nic
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"In northwestern Iran, running for almost 200 kilometers from the southeastern shores of the Caspian Sea to the mountains of Bilikuh in the east" This should read: "In northeastern Iran ..."
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Like I said, by your rationale, slavery doesn't violate people's rights in countries where slavery is legal. Such a definition of rights would render the term meaningless.
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Rights are not country specific. They're inalienable or the entire concept of rights is meaningless (lest you agree that a Constitution that allows torture of innocent people means that people in that country have no right to not be to
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>Piketty's theory is not that capital's share of income is increasing. and >His theory is that wealth grows faster than the economy, and that it creates wealth inequality. This is the same thing.. Whether the 'income&#x
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>Yes, it does, if the voters decide it does. Republic beats market. No it doesn't. People's rights are inalienable. Rights would be meaningless if they're merely created at the whim of the majority. >Ah, yes, beating th
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>The justification is that people are hoarding limited resources from others and not consuming them. All resources are limited. That doesn't justify robbing people of their property rights, by dictating how they shall use their own
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You missed my point. I was giving an example of a rightful exercise over one's own private property leading to market prices increasing. You don't own the market and the extent to which you have a right to influence it is limited
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You have no right to force people to sell their assets at a low price. It's not unfair at all if they exercise their right to their private property in some way, like refusing to sell, that causes prices in the market to increase.
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This is a typical unintended consequence of top-down economic planning. It turns out cookie cutter solutions imposed by fiat reduce people's welfare.
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Counteracting a me me me society with authoritarian mandates forcing people to give to the poor cannot be morally justified in my opinion. The just use of the law is to punish those who violate the rights of others, not those who don't
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>I for one have always enjoyed using the service, but am thoroughly convinced that allowing the rental of entire suites is having a considerable impact on local housing availability. I believe short term accommodations affordability is j
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Why I won’t use ‘preferred’ pronouns – and why you shouldn’t either – UoT Prof(torontosun.com)
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To the best of my understanding, market socialism is just worker coops operating within a traditional market economy. That would mean it's not an actual political ideology.
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Capitalism is a process that respects individual rights and in particular, contract law. It is a process that is responsible for more poverty reduction than any other in history, and for which there is a trove of evidence indicating that it
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Nothing you wrote supports the ridiculous notion that expropriating less of a corporation's income is a form of government intervention.
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>I certainly acknowledge that it seeks to bar certain apparently voluntary economic interactions on the grounds that they are not as voluntary as they first seem. It would bar transactions that any court of law would find to be consensua
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Ultimately every conception of rights is subjective, but property is generally recognized as that which we acquire through First Possession (a principle observed throughout the Animal Kingdom), and Homesteading (taking unclaimed natural res
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Government – Frederic Bastiat (1848)(bastiat.org)
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>I am glad you elaborated. So how this information is produced. In order to produce the information, you will rely on the works of centuries of collaborating between individual and groups. That information is freely available. And making
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I can't imagine rent having gone up by much in one year. But yes, vacancy rates have gone down, and that has made finding apartments challenging. But the claims of Vancouver having unaffordable housing predate the recent decline in the
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No I am not confusing anything. Marx laid out what mainstream Communism is, and that includes expropriating property from people, and denying the people the right to engage in voluntary economic interactions. You may be confused as to what
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> Regarding #1, socialism distinguishes between personal private property and productive assets. There is no moral distinction. It's an arbitrary distinction to justify robbing people of the value they generate. It's slavery. &
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>What evidence are you using to claim that laws against 'stealing' are one of the basic laws of society? Maat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat#42_Negative_Confessions_.... >42 Negative Confessions (P
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Charging a fee for appropriating natural resources can be fully justified, but whether a fee is charged comes down to practicality. Example: it's not practical to charge every individual camper a fee for every piece of obsidian they fi
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I don't believe that inequality justifies violence to force people to give up the currency they receive in private trade (to pay an income tax). I also don't believe that inequality is a natural outcome of a market economy. The ma
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>Nonsense, non-captialist societies may have been less effective, but they were obviously still engaged in economic activity. There has never been an economic system that has has zero defence for private property rights (in the abstract
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I guess we can agree to disagree on that. I think if we step out of the philosophical, it's clear what private property rights are at the level of principle. True, there is a lot of disagreement in relation to specific cases, but I thi
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by aminok 10y ago
>This limit can very well be a million or a few millions. An income tax rate of 80 percent on any income bracket is extremely heavy according to my definition of a 'heavy tax', as is a tax amounting to 2-10% of the value of pri
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Society is complex, and trying to explain a principle and its application in all possible permutations will require an indepth explanation, but the overall concept is coherent and straightforward. I wouldn't call it ambiguous. Regardin

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