| WolfpackN64 said: 1. Ah please. Will you guys stop believing in this Libertarian bullshit? 2. Europe is becoming more and more neoliberal. Everything is becoming privatised for the argument of efficiëncy. 3. You know what the funny thing is about the free market and public sectors? They don't mix. The free market is terribly inneficiënt whent it comes to making sure people have good healthcare, decent transport and energy sectors. Why? Because you need to look at the public good, not at the cheapest and fastest way to do it. Private charities are a good way to give the rich some ease of mind. In the ideal world though, we need structural solutions to eliminate poverty and halt the corporate grip on our lives. 4. The solution, of course, is a modern command economy. 5. The only part where I agree is that defense spending everywhere is just too damn high. |
1. Great way to start an argument. Marginalize another person's views!
2. Is it? Handing priveleges to large-scale private companies is not a "free-market" that is just government handouts. Allowing people to privatise the common resources through labor is the proper way. Europe is becoming more corporatist, not more laissez-faire.
3. People used to say the same thing about education, but somehow there are plenty of places with a focus on private education that exceed the outcomes of the current public systems here in the U.S. Practically everything managed by the federal state, or states here goes to ruin. So even if the free-market isn't that great with providing certain services, I really can't see how the government has been? Just look at the Veteran affairs system for how well public hospitals would work here, the disrepair of state roads for how well they've managed roads (despite having tons of revenue to do so), and the public opinion demolishing alternative energy solutions like nuclear and state taxes on clean solutions like solar disuading people from using better energy solutions than fossil fuels.
4. LOL, you mean the type of command economies that have failed a billion times already? The types that are failing currently in Venezuela and Brasil? Don't make me laugh. Command-economies can't even get the people fed, how are they suppose to solve these other things that are supposedly outside of the abilities of markets? The economic calculation problem just prevents command-economies from working. No person or set of people are smarter at determining the supply and demand curves of a good than the emergent orders caused by billions of individuals voluntarily exchanging - in other words "The Market" is.
"Let's try socialism again, even though it has never worked in the dozens of times it was attempted!" - The Motto of People Who Never Learn From Their Mistakes
5. Cool, at least we have some common ground. Unfortunately, militarism is the good most purchased by states that attempt "command economies." The reason why? Because "command economies" rely on a presupposition of the use of force by the state. Just think of what the word "command" means. And the mililtary is the means by which they enforce their "commands."
