@YouCantKillLove It seems charlie is being heavily influenced by right wing so called libertarians. Note also his thinly veiled attacks on the "poor and lazy". Textbook Ayn Rand survival of the fittest, I'm all right jack, kill the poor nonsense.
This system is NOT a free market. In a free market, there are NO subsidies, there's NO lobbying for laws to the benefit of big business, and most of all, incompetent assholes like the big banks get absolutely NO taxpayer funded bailouts. You do well, you get rewarded. You fail, you eat the losses and try to learn from your mistakes.
How do you know that libertarianism isn't fit for the job? When has it EVER been tried? Just so you know, neocons like Reagan and Bush, and neo-liberals like Thatcher are not examples of libertarianism. What they would call 'deregulation' is really just regulation in favour of big business, at the expense of everyone else. A libertarian society is where NOBODY gets special privilege, subsidies or laws passed in their favour to the detriment of their opponents and competitors.
Normal people don't just suddenly become sociopaths. Maybe the fatcats were better at hiding their sociopathy before they gain command over the military and the police. They are often really good at hiding their true nature, and sadly, even when their illness becomes glaringly obvious, a lot of people still won't accept that truth.
I was never into all that inside job stuff.But I notice that you are now starting on the Unions.As if the Thatcherite Regime hasn't done enough already and now you want to stick the knife in too. 26th March 2011, you didn't mind tagging along on that Union event trying to call it an "insurrection".
@Pikukat If a human "abuses" another by causing loss of life, liberty, or property then that's where the law comes in. Libertarians don't advocate a lawless society; just a society in which government is small, plays a limited role in people's lives, does not interfere with the free market, and protects the freedom and liberty of the individual.
... libertarian model is fit for the job. It doesn't take into account all the pitfalls involved with a society of humans and the way humans can exploit and abuse each other.
@Alastrian83 I understand your sentiment, but what were these fatcats and corrupt politicians before they gained the power that gave them the freedoms they now abuse? Although, there's a concentration of sociopaths and pyschopaths in those higher echelons, a lot of them behaved like normal people before they gained those excessive freedoms. We differ in the amount of trust we place in humanity at large. It's not that I don't think we can have a good, free society, I just don't believe that the..
@YouCantKillLove It's Corporatism.
iTitanium 2 weeks ago
@YouCantKillLove It seems charlie is being heavily influenced by right wing so called libertarians. Note also his thinly veiled attacks on the "poor and lazy". Textbook Ayn Rand survival of the fittest, I'm all right jack, kill the poor nonsense.
someoddballfreak 1 month ago
Charlie how is bailing out banks socialism?
YouCantKillLove 1 month ago
@Pikukat
This system is NOT a free market. In a free market, there are NO subsidies, there's NO lobbying for laws to the benefit of big business, and most of all, incompetent assholes like the big banks get absolutely NO taxpayer funded bailouts. You do well, you get rewarded. You fail, you eat the losses and try to learn from your mistakes.
Alastrian83 1 month ago
@Pikukat
How do you know that libertarianism isn't fit for the job? When has it EVER been tried? Just so you know, neocons like Reagan and Bush, and neo-liberals like Thatcher are not examples of libertarianism. What they would call 'deregulation' is really just regulation in favour of big business, at the expense of everyone else. A libertarian society is where NOBODY gets special privilege, subsidies or laws passed in their favour to the detriment of their opponents and competitors.
Alastrian83 1 month ago
@Pikukat
Normal people don't just suddenly become sociopaths. Maybe the fatcats were better at hiding their sociopathy before they gain command over the military and the police. They are often really good at hiding their true nature, and sadly, even when their illness becomes glaringly obvious, a lot of people still won't accept that truth.
Alastrian83 1 month ago
So this is Phase 2 is it ?
I was never into all that inside job stuff.But I notice that you are now starting on the Unions.As if the Thatcherite Regime hasn't done enough already and now you want to stick the knife in too. 26th March 2011, you didn't mind tagging along on that Union event trying to call it an "insurrection".
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@Pikukat If a human "abuses" another by causing loss of life, liberty, or property then that's where the law comes in. Libertarians don't advocate a lawless society; just a society in which government is small, plays a limited role in people's lives, does not interfere with the free market, and protects the freedom and liberty of the individual.
RustyL121 1 month ago
... libertarian model is fit for the job. It doesn't take into account all the pitfalls involved with a society of humans and the way humans can exploit and abuse each other.
Pikukat 1 month ago
@Alastrian83 I understand your sentiment, but what were these fatcats and corrupt politicians before they gained the power that gave them the freedoms they now abuse? Although, there's a concentration of sociopaths and pyschopaths in those higher echelons, a lot of them behaved like normal people before they gained those excessive freedoms. We differ in the amount of trust we place in humanity at large. It's not that I don't think we can have a good, free society, I just don't believe that the..
Pikukat 1 month ago