I decided that I don't get into nearly enough debates with strangers.

[Mr Khan]

SamuelRSmith said:

Mr Khan said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Mr Khan said:
Change "or" to "=" on that second shirt, then it would be accurate.

Yes, because being the true master of your property and voluntarily exchanging it with others for mutual benefit is equal to serfdom.

Too much market freedom leads to the same thing that too much civil freedom leads to: tyranny of the minority who are blessed or unscrupulous (or both) enough to be able to monopolize power. Not all property being created equal, those who control the means of production manipulate those who have only their labor to offer, and can thus place them in perpetual bondage as surely as the fief-lords of old.

Freedom and intervention need balancing.

Nobody controls the means to production. Do you know many hundreds of thousands of processes go into making a cup of coffee, and the almost limitless alternatives for each of those processes?

vertical monopolies have gotten around that in the past, though we seem to have gotten past them, due in part to changes in the economy and in part to antitrust laws.

2 questions, actually. Are you in favor of antitrust laws, 1. and 2, yesterday you mentioned something about a currency system that doesn't require central bank intervention, which i would be curious to learn of, as everything from the advent of the gold standard on forward has had some sort of central force intervening.