tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post975793904345053146..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: Generalizing my last post a little, or, "how liberals should talk to libertarians"Evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-240491459867971972012-08-01T16:50:58.520-04:002012-08-01T16:50:58.520-04:00There's a fundamental difference in how these ...There's a fundamental difference in how these allocators of goods exchange. The market adheres to meritocratic parameters and tends to encourage the highest possible production for the consumer. The state is, like it or not, an involuntary institution seizes its revenue from its citizens under threat of force. Furthermore, its direction of resources will be arbitrary from the angle of the consumers. Relegating large swathes of private, market activity to the supervision, direction, and inspection of faceless government bureaucrats is always against the interest of society as a whole.Mattheus von Guttenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404889240800715511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-39102319195338762952012-07-28T12:15:57.297-04:002012-07-28T12:15:57.297-04:00"Market power privileges the wealthy few"..."Market power privileges the wealthy few"<br /><br />Why exactly is this a problem? I think you are familiar with the "if he produces it by on his own without aid from the state, then what is wrong if he is rich" argument Daniel.<br /><br />So why then do you see some individuals earning high income as opposed to the rest as a problem as you seem to allude to?<br /><br />I am just curious on the thinking here.James E. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17915979762298347210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-741954414644791242012-07-27T16:20:58.479-04:002012-07-27T16:20:58.479-04:00Two points.
1. Those of us who see ourselves as &q...Two points.<br />1. Those of us who see ourselves as "neoliberals", partial to markets more than progressives and socially liberal but not committed to crazy ethical views, are often sorted into either the libertarian or the progressive groups and suffer from stereotypes of those groups.<br />2. Much of the frustration with progressives comes with their comfort with the economically uninformed. If progressives, neoliberals, and libertarians could come together supporting free trade, open borders, tax reform, and occupational licensing reform, billions of people around the world could be better off. Instead we get useless infighting.noiselullnoreply@blogger.com