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by ancap 11y ago
You say that as if efficient markets is at odds with poor people. When you look at an economic problem such as this, you almost always find that the culprit is some market intervention. In this case, the problem of high rents in relation to
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by ancap 11y ago
If you live in Greece
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by ancap 11y ago
I'm all for this (and any other form of welfare), provided the funding of such a program is done on a purely voluntary basis.
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by ancap 11y ago
The notion that having less of your money forcibly taken from you is a form of welfare really baffles my mind.
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by ancap 11y ago
Anarchism, at least anarcho-capitalism (there are many flavors of anarchism), also requires a strong rule of law. The difference is the law is enforced through private parties, and the enforcement of law is reactive to the initialization of
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by ancap 11y ago
It's a myth that the "left" does not do this as well. "Obamacare", food stamps and many other welfare programs are indirect corporate welfare. The military industrial complex, perhaps the most egregious example of c
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by ancap 11y ago
So you're saying that you implied something from the parent comment and that by further implying from your first implication led you to believe the OP was racist? Do you also find it racist when prominent black people criticize what th
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by ancap 11y ago
They are different in their purpose and, possibly, in their ownership structure, but why should that change that the owners have the right to determine what is permissible on their property and what is not?
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by ancap 11y ago
What you call "free speech issues" I call private property issues. If someone enters my home I can ask them to leave if I don't like what they say or how they say it. Going even further if I don't like something someone
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by ancap 11y ago
Racism is stating a superiority of one race over another. The last sentence was controversial, at worst an overgeneralization, but not racist. Can we please stop this politically correct nonsense of calling any controversial comment involvi
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by ancap 11y ago
If a worker is generating $50/hour worth of value for a company and the worker asked for a raise from $15/hour, the company would be stupid to let the worker walk away. It would not be long before they are unable to hire the requi
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by ancap 11y ago
It has little to do with whether a company can "afford" it. If the worker does not provide at least $15/hour worth of value to the company, they will be out of a job. Positions which do not provide value > than the minimum
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by ancap 11y ago
In case anyone is confused TTIP (along with NAFTA) is not a "free trade" agreement. A free trade agreement could be written on a post-it note and would be worded something like: "We agree to not get in the way of our citizens
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by ancap 11y ago
Translation: I cannot counter why Krugman compares apples and oranges in his political crusade against austerity so I will rely upon ad hominem attacks. Yes, anyone who doesn't worship your god must be an austrian charlatan.
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by ancap 11y ago
And yet you provide no sources for this alleged ripping apart. EDIT: Furthermore your response demonstrates you do not even understand my point. The purpose of the sources I have referenced are not to show support for economic plan A over e
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by ancap 11y ago
No, it was not wrong. I am simply using the definition of austerity that Krugman commonly uses (see my above post). UK has used QE since 2009[1], BTW, but only government expenditures goes into Krugman's definition. [1] http:/&#x
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by ancap 11y ago
In talking of austerity Krugman neglects monetary policy[1] ("The key measure you want to look at is the ratio of debt to G.D.P." [2]), yet that chart you reference is inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars. That is to say, it is an appl
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by ancap 11y ago
I certainly agree with you. I'm providing an example that fits Paul Krugman's narrow definition of the word.
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by ancap 11y ago
How about in the U.S. in the past couple years[1]? [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2015/01/13/voodoo-ec...
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by ancap 12y ago
>You're conflating black emancipation with black equality, >Because there was a civil war going on, and as a practical fact he had to keep border states like Maryland and Kentucky from being dragged out of the union if he wanted
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by ancap 12y ago
Secession is not an act of war, neither did it require a war in response. Sumter, was, in effect, a non event where no humans were killed. Lincoln's reaction to Sumter, however, led to the death of nearly a million people.
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by ancap 12y ago
>And sometimes those institutions have to drag people into the future by burning everything down and instilling virtue at the point of a bayonet. There is nothing virtuous about the death of around a million people, especially when it is
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by ancap 12y ago
>In 1860 the Republican party platform promised that they were only opposed to the expansion of slavery, they did not propose to end it. In the early stages of the war Lincoln reiterated his modest goals with respect to slavery in order
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by ancap 12y ago
>It's reasonable to say that full equality for black citizens was an aim of the war even if it wasn't an aim of Lincoln I find it very hard to believe that more than a few people in the entire country had any such concept of &q
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by ancap 12y ago
I don't see how the quote has been taken out of context. That quote among many others make it very clear that Lincoln never was in favor of "full equality for black citizens". At the beginning of his presidency he promoted an
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by ancap 12y ago
It's hard to read an article on history when the first paragraph has a glaring falsehood: >Most historians, though, acknowledge that the war’s most ambitious aim—full equality for black citizens Quote from Lincoln: >If there be t
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by ancap 12y ago
What makes you think that "privatization of prisons" has anything to do with capitalism? Is it because it is "private" and private must = capitalism? It sounds like you don't know what capitalism is. You don't
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by ancap 12y ago
I gave an example of two individuals who were unequal--"Person A" and "Martian A". As best as I can tell, there is no problem with there being inequality between these two individuals.
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by ancap 12y ago
I certainly sympathize with the meat of your arguments, but I take issue with the use of the word "capitalism". That capitalism is being used at all to describe our current system, is a misnomer.
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by ancap 12y ago
(a) - Person A is an upper class CEO living in the U.S. in the 1930s. He has a large mansion, a paid cook and other staff which care for the "menial stuff." It's likely his bank account will never drop below seven digits. Mar

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