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by ancap 10y ago
The article never claimed to provide an exhaustive list of all healthcare related laws and their affects. In exactly what way does omitting that law weaken their argument?
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by ancap 10y ago
The Mises Institute eschews the term "think tank" and does not lobby for any government policy. Its founders purposefully put its headquarters far away from Washington DC because they did not want to be viewed as a lobbying organi
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by ancap 10y ago
How do you know that everyone is "silicon valley white"? Perhaps they identify as black, or hispanic, or ticuna, or martian?
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by ancap 10y ago
Capitalism has no problem with pricing the environment. It is governments which have prevented it from doing so. Privatize the skies, oceans and lands and you would clearly see the prices come into play. Now we could argue about the merits
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by ancap 10y ago
I would invite you to reconsider your position, at least as it relates to utilities. In the early, "wild west" days of utilities, when utilities were just beginning to be a thing, there was a large surge of competition to provide
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by ancap 10y ago
Impossible! Many here on HN have proclaimed the only way to deal with Mylan's price hike is regulation. If this low-cost alternative does not make it to market in a speedy fashion there is only the government and it's regulations
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by ancap 10y ago
I agree with your disdain of the word taxpayer. More appropriate would be "tax victim". You have a fallacy in your premise, however. Government is not synonymous with society.
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by ancap 10y ago
>Show me an alternative model you'd prefer to use to reject the "fight for $15" that wasn't rejected by the actual results of minimum wage increases in the last several decades and we can talk. Tell me which study you
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by ancap 10y ago
>The literature I've seen does not purport that no conceivable change in the minimum wage would have any effect on unemployment levels. That alone demonstrates the answer in the above linked DOL "mythbusters" to be false,
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by ancap 10y ago
The "academic literature" purporting that the minimum wage has no affect on unemployment has deep flaws and has all been disproven. If not so, why not raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour? If it has no affect on unemployment, le
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by ancap 10y ago
Can you tell me more about this "human sense"? If I build a home on Mars should I be entitled to have some third party provide me with "water, gas, phones and electricity"? A lot of the decisions I personally make are de
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by ancap 10y ago
There are all sorts of living arrangements which don't include welfare, that are affordable and attainable for most everyone. That being said, if housing is not affordable for 99.999% of the population the most glaring culprit is not
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by ancap 10y ago
Whether there are good intentions(1) or not, the inevitable consequence of a "living wage", minimum wage, or whatever you call it, is unemployment among the least skilled--typically minorities and youth. (1) There is plenty of evi
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by ancap 10y ago
Being old does not preclude it from being a hip buzzword. At any rate, even if that wasn't the best adjective for it, the term "living wage" was just as nonsensical in 1933 as it is today.
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by ancap 10y ago
"Living wage"? Are you suggesting that uber and other drivers are all dead? \s (I know "living wage" is the hip buzzword, but it is a poor phrase, is hyperbolic, and creates a false picture that when these workers finish
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by ancap 10y ago
How do you know? The medical industry regularly has shortages of dozens of different products [1]. And that is to say nothing of the cost of navigating through all the regulatory hurdles. [1] http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com&
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by ancap 10y ago
>That alone means that society is considering some people's lives more important than others No it doesn't. Healthcare does not happen through some fictitious consensus of "society". It happens through individuals int
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by ancap 10y ago
I would first like to point out that in the context of this conversation the definition for shortage I am using is that there is a shortage of a good or service where it once was readily available. Sure I could, say, take a rocket ship, to
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by ancap 10y ago
>or regulations that set the price by law, the high cost remains It is important to note that even such a law does not magically remove the high cost. Certain products have a high price for a reason and setting the price by fiat is guara
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by ancap 10y ago
I can think of many products which are life-saving which are readily available from countless producers for relatively cheap. The difference here is just as gwright has pointed out and you have a corpus of regulation which makes this partic
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by ancap 10y ago
From a libertarian perspective, at least when discussing air pollution, it is unimportant that air molecules flow from one property to another. What is important is that I do not pollute your airspace.
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by ancap 10y ago
I disagree that no one can own the air. To clarify, airspace can be homesteaded like any other piece of property. Obviously this is not necessarily the ownership of every air molecule in a given airspace as that would be quite impractical.
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by ancap 10y ago
> there is no way to pollute the air (or ocean) without depriving others of their rights I mostly agree with this part, > If you are a True Libertarian you should be in favor of the Government regulating air polluters but take issue w
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by ancap 10y ago
Any ruling order, whether it be a government or something else, requires at least the tacit consent of the majority. I believe it would be much more difficult to take over an area lacking a strong centralized government as opposed to an are
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by ancap 10y ago
Anarcho capitalism, which is not necessarily the view of every libertarian (some being "minarchists"), would be the absence of any government authority. Without a government the regulation you speak of is non-existent. There is no
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by ancap 10y ago
Can you expound on this ideologically consistent view?
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by ancap 10y ago
Yes
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by ancap 10y ago
How was this an example of how restrictions were lifted and a free market created?
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by ancap 10y ago
Several decades of African aid has demonstrated that is a lot easier said than done.
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by ancap 10y ago
I for one support child labor and recognize that people cannot be lifted out of poverty by fiat. Children working along side their parents means these families can eat, and trying to legislate that away only prolongs and exasperates their p

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