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by ancap 9y ago
Not sure about the thai tiger sanctuary but the referenced Lion's Gate Sanctuary was a 501(c)(3) according to page 3 of http://www.elbertcounty-co.gov/docs/SU-16-0019%20LIONS%20GAT...
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by ancap 9y ago
> you can't actually "vote with your dollars" Sure you can, and you did. You're gripe is that the majority of others don't share your concerns--so you have been, thus far, out voted.
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by ancap 9y ago
You're right, which is further evidence of the lack of a conspiracy. If we assume that most rapes occur disproportionally in poorer neighborhoods, then 86% of Detroit rapes from 1984-2009 happening to poorer black women sounds quite pr
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by ancap 9y ago
This quote is nonsense. As another commenter noted, the 86% of victims being people of color roughly matches the demographics of the city. As Worthy herself notes there are hundreds of thousands untested rape-kits nationwide, affecting pred
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by ancap 9y ago
> Cooperation beats competition. It's hard to think of greater scale of cooperation than what happens in the free market > What would those SIGs defend? Without even getting very creative: obscure routes to place lines, brands of
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by ancap 9y ago
> Is a societal rule against, say, polluting waterways also not a regulation? Absolutely. Societal rules recognizing the rights of property owners would deem pollution as a trespass and violation of property rights. Unfortunately 19th ce
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by ancap 9y ago
Your fallacy is in equating government regulation with the will of society. In most cases regulation is a result of powerful lobbying (which is not to say that society does not demand some of the regulations codified by government).
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by ancap 9y ago
> and we're not going to get a third without government influence Sadly it is government influence which limits you to two, requesting more action from them will certainly only make things worse.
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by ancap 9y ago
> Factor in no need to advertise services I've seen plenty of advertisements for government services. > no duplication of effort (and greater scale) The "duplication of effort" is a plus for a functioning market bringin
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by ancap 9y ago
It depends upon how you define regulations. The free market is capable of regulating itself as long as there are societal rules against stealing and fraud, rules to enforce contracts, etc.
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by ancap 9y ago
> Because Uber drivers are all self-employed, they're not unionised or protected in any way. Thus, Uber pays its drivers a pittance, and is able to undercut and undermine existing taxi services who are forced by unions and law to pa
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by ancap 9y ago
In my comment the content provider is what you termed the ad buyer. When you say consumer, who are you referring to? A person who visits a website with an advertisement? If so, they are not a party involved in an economic transaction. >
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by ancap 9y ago
> I find this primacy extremely contradictory given that there can never be a level playing field and libertarians keep arguing against levelling the playing field where that would be possible to some degree (inheritance tax) > I also
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by ancap 9y ago
In order for their to be fraud you would have be a party in some economic transaction. In the case of advertising the parties are the ad provider and the content provider. Are you suggesting the content provider is being defrauded? How so?
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by ancap 9y ago
> Marketing is a 12 figure industry and billions are spent with little accountability Isn't it wonderful that they could improve the human standard of living to the measurement of billions of dollars? Everyone who makes a profit in
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by ancap 9y ago
> If we want to enjoy the protection that the rule of law affords us, we will have to accept that there needs to be some sort of social process that determines what our laws should be. It's a negotiation. I have seen this sentiment
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by ancap 9y ago
Yes, this is an excellent example which further debunks the labor theory of value.
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by ancap 9y ago
This is the legacy of the progressive movement--namely that experts, with domain specific knowledge, should be put in charge of running bureaucracy and creating regulations.
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by ancap 9y ago
To address this point I will quote from Walter Block[1]: >Just because Hazlitt has no formal credentials in economics does not render his views fallacious or superficial. There are other highly respected economists, in the modern era, wh
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by ancap 9y ago
It absolutely is a problem with the minimum wage. Chances are a homeless person's marginal productivity is less than $15/hour. Why would an employer hire someone that's going to be a net loss on their bottom line? Sadly this
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by ancap 9y ago
I don't agree that consumers are irrational. But I do find it interesting that your implied solution would be to empower someone or some group of people who similarly possess the same negative human trait, so they could then make overa
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by ancap 9y ago
Anarcho-capitalism is a theoretical political structure which has never been attempted. But I fail to see how that's relevant to the discussion. Seems like a red herring to me. It was originally alleged that corporations hold all the p
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by ancap 9y ago
Such as? Please provide some examples.
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by ancap 9y ago
Except you're imagining power in entirely the wrong place. It is the consumers who hold all the power within a free economy. Corporations only become large and profitable in a free economy when they meet the ever increasing demands of
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by ancap 9y ago
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. To state the same thing differently: They pay the market rate which is less than or equal to the employee's marginal productivity, or, an employer is not going to pay someone more than their
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by ancap 9y ago
Wow, way to take something that would be a win-win for Walmart, its employees and consumers and turn it into some dark scheme. >Instead of paying their employees a living wage Walmart (and any other employer) doesn't arbitrarily pic
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by ancap 10y ago
America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse i
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by ancap 10y ago
The question therefore is, why does the monopoly exist? You will find that, as _jal has commented, it is not because of some natural phenomenon springing out of a free market.
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by ancap 10y ago
For a publication named "The Economist" that's quite the intellectually lazy answer. They say nothing of the existing conditions which make it possible for a company to arbitrarily set drug prices (after all, few other busine
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by ancap 10y ago
I'm always amazed at the quality and cheapness of the options provided from some third world countries' private medical care. It's amazing what can be accomplished when patients and doctors cooperate without the meddling of a

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