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Very nice response.
horvay 2 years ago
B1. By the way, I wouldn't be too hard on someone who assumed that fire-fighting service organizations wouldn't exist if not for taxes. That's very normal, because modern schools neglect to inform people about the fact that the 1st fire-fighting service organizations were private groups started by people like Benjamin Franklin. If your house was next to mine, & a fire started at your house & then spread to mine, I could hold you legally liable. To be continued...
legendre007 2 years ago
B2. For that reason, most people had a strong financial incentive to purchase fire insurance, & insurance companies were, in monetary terms, the biggest clients of private fire-fighting service businesses. But insurance companies decided they could cut their own internal costs if they could get a certain government subsidy. They did this by lobbying governments to force all citizens to pay for socialized fire-fighting services. To be continued...
legendre007 2 years ago
B3. Once the government forced all citizens to pay for fire-fighting agencies in taxes, the insurance companies felt free to say to purchasers of fire insurance: "Since your tax money already pays for the service of putting out your house's fire, our private insurance company doesn't have to pay for that." By getting governments to socialize fire-fighting services, insurance companies took that internal cost & then had it socialistically imposed on all taxpayers in society. To be continued...
legendre007 2 years ago
B4. The USA's firefighting services, the USA's road system, & the U.K.'s running waterworks systems, all started out as private enterprises. Their being taken over by government had nothing to do with collectivization being more efficient & everything to do with Jim Taggart-type private interests appealing to collectivist cliches in order to successfully lobby for the establishment of mixed-economy regulations. They reduced their own private expenses by imposing those expenses on all taxpayers.
legendre007 2 years ago
Hooray! I'm happy to see you're back, uploading videos on your . . . bideo/video something-something abroad. ;-)
Will this video have a "Video Response" link to strawberrycocoa/Telisha's video?
I have to admit that Atlas didn't make an instant convert of me; after I finished it, I had to let the ideas gel with me before I read up more on Objectivism and found that I had to admit that it was a much better philosophy than the vague, vulgar welfare-statism of my elementary school days.
legendre007 2 years ago