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by jules 9y ago
Then why give this example? The whole point of what I said was that in a free market the transactions have to be voluntary. Whatever your definition of voluntary, the precise meaning of which can be debated, it does not include opening snip
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by jules 9y ago
Your source does not actually give the data or methodology for their claim that child labour peaked during the industrial revolution, so there is no way to know how they came to that conclusion, but a reasonable explanation is that they cou
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Firstly, Churchill's war-time policies can hardly be described as capitalism. Secondly, an accusation by a politician means little. Thirdly, even if we accept that it is true and that we can attribute this genocide to capitalism (none
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by jules 9y ago
> It's certainly not widely accepted. Almost only libertarians have such a dogmatic understanding of the meaning of voluntary - simply because it defies common sense. What libertarians believe is not relevant. I am not a libertarian
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None of the things you mention are violence. The miners decided that out of all the alternatives they had, that was their best alternative. At some point they decided that it was no longer, so they went on strike. If the system had worked a
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by jules 9y ago
There is nothing theological about the widely accepted meaning of voluntary. If your definition of voluntary includes putting a gun to somebody's head or does not include exchange of one good for another, then you are the one redefinin
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by jules 9y ago
There is nothing involuntary about the _transaction_ when you hire a hitman. The involuntary bit is when the victim receives the bullet.
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Why is that relevant when the violence was initiated by the company?
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by jules 9y ago
You don't see the difference between physically keeping you captive and offering you a job for 20 hours per day?
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You absolutely need government force to enforce the rule that you can't use a gun to make somebody give you their wallet. That is not what I disagree with. Calling this a market regulation is what I disagree with. > You can't h
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by jules 9y ago
Yes, just as I involuntarily participate in the system that I can't punch random people in the face.
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> You cannot just look the other way and pretend there is still free choice when these people are captive and not even able to search for a new job. Holding people captive is the opposite of voluntary. > Here are a few examples to sta
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by jules 9y ago
Strictly speaking there is indeed no such thing as a completely voluntary transaction, as every transaction affects a third party, even if in a minuscule way. Similar criticisms can be made of any system, or any word (such as "voluntar
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> Where does your ownership of the land originate if not from someone at some point in history using the threat of violence to keep other people off of it? It comes from exactly that, and the system in which that occurred was not a free
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> That won't make it any better. You're still hand waving away a lot of exploitation. I'm not hand waving away any exploitation. I did not pass any moral judgement, for or against. I described what an unregulated market is
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Absolutely, and the solution to this is not a law that makes their best option to survive illegal, but to offer them a better option.
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by jules 9y ago
You already broke the property rules if you went on my land without my permission. If I agree to let you on my land and then put a gun to your head, that is against the rules. > Property rights don't exist without some form of regul
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by jules 9y ago
If you disagree with this definition of voluntary, that's fine. Let's choose another string of letters to denote what I wrote in the previous comment, and change my other comment and replace the string "voluntary" with t
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by jules 9y ago
Children worked at their parents' subsistence farms before the industrial revolution. That is still child labour.
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The transaction of you working for me is still voluntary. No person forced you to work for me. I did not cause you to starve. If I disappeared off the face of the planet you would still starve. That I offer you a job improves your options r
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You are mixing up capitalism with anarchy and chaos. Capitalism requires the rule of law and property rights. An unregulated market is one where any voluntary transaction can take place and no involuntary transaction takes place. It is
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by jules 9y ago
An unregulated market doesn't mean that you can shoot people. Each transaction must be voluntary. Capitalism is not the same as anarchy.
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by jules 9y ago
People trafficking is an entirely different matter because that involves the use of force. The employees can go to another employer if that employer treats them better. That is the main protector against bad employers, NOT regulation. Most
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by jules 9y ago
WebAssembly is not just about compiling libraries to access them from JS. WebAssembly is about compiling other languages to be able to run on the web with reasonable speed. WebAssembly programs will have access to the DOM.
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What is present in Opa that is missing in other stacks?
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Seaside from Smalltalk. To some extent the original ASP. There is also a PHP framework that does that, but I forgot it's name.
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They are probably betting on the low probability event that this becomes THE crypto currency. I can buy a hard drive with more space than I ever need for 40 dollars. A storage service could get it cheaper, so I doubt that they are betting o
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The property rights to your belongings are also fundamentally reliant on the government's promise to use violence to enforce those rights. Concluding that it is therefore immoral is too simplistic. You have to take into account the ful
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The fundamental value of the dollar is that it can be used to not go to prison for tax evasion. That is something that many people want to do. Bitcoin has no such anchor.
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> If I told you that I'd be replacing your broken windshield, would you understand that I'd be simply removing your windshield and not putting anything in its place? That's not how societies work. You cannot have no social

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