Do you believe equality and equal treatment under a law to be undesirable?

[HappySqurriel]

richardhutnik said:

badgenome said:

Freedom to choose doesn't mean that you're entitled to succeed, naturally, since consumers are also free and will rebuff an artist whose work they dislike or can't relate to. But it does mean that you have the freedom to try your hand at whatever you want, whereas in a planned economy, you simply don't.

By the same token, supporting free markets doesn't necessitate seeing the free market as the cure for all ills. It only requires that a person come to the realization that centrally planned economies always fail spectacularly because it would take a God-like intelligence to manage such things, and of course, no such person exists or ever shall.

I am interested in seeing what the Zeitgeist movement can come up with on this front.  They presume they can have some sort of computer which can manage everything.  Their computer system can't account for innovation.  No computer program can.

Anyhow, the freedom to choose is limited, particularly if you have little or no resources.  At that point you take what life would give you.  

The vast majority of people have the opportunity to make choices that can increase their resources (or increase their earning potential) although the trade-off may be unacceptable to them ...

While it is open to interpretation whether it is "fair" or not, outcomes in a capatilist economy are mostly determined by a series of well known rational factors that people have significant control over based on the decisions they make. What this means is that people generally have an idea of what they can do that would result in a higher standard of living, although most of these choices comes with an immediate lower standard of living and have risks associated with them. The sacrifices that have to be made, and the uncertainty of the outcome, are what prevent people from making the choices to improve their standard of living; it is not the lack of resources or options.