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Originally Posted by wibblyesq
Ahh a libertarian, last of the great deluded capitalists.
Your insistence on the "free market will solve all problems" is just as deluded as anything a marxist might pronounce.
Why? Because they're all run by people. People are greedy, heartless and generally corrupt. Corporations and totalitarian governments are 10x worse. Just look what happened when they deregulated the finance industry, look into things like robber barons, etc.
Neither total government control nor absolute absence of it will solve the problem. The solution lies somewhere in the middle.
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I have great admiration for the Robber Barons, here is good article on that.
Coyote Blog: In Praise of "Robber Barons"
But I’m going to go ahead and agree with you that the government should not be 100% absent, I think a mushy 90% absence will do the trick.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
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