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GeneCosta
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Quote: from Elm at 10:02 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
 Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:27 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Elm at 1:14 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:13 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
The state and its entire relationship with commercial enterprise. 
See you get half the picture and you get the underlying problems - why do you keep blinding yourself to the other half?
What other half? I find minarchists like Friedman more despicable than honest welfare policies.
The half where theft for any reason is wrong and counter productive. What do you have against Friedman?
As I said elsewhere, theft is entirely subjective. We can take the long, historical debate over ownership versus use and occupancy, for example. One's claim to property diminishes the less they come into contact with that property. Friedman, like Hayek, has a love affair with authoritarianism if it promotes capitalism. Both men defended the Pinochet regime. I also wish Friedman would have repudiated himself more publicly after admitting that his original theories about monetary policy weren't that accurate. He moved more towards becoming a Keynesian.
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Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man
how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. - Karl Marx
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Quote: from GeneCosta at 11:10 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Elm at 10:02 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:27 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Elm at 1:14 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:13 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
The state and its entire relationship with commercial enterprise.
See you get half the picture and you get the underlying problems - why do you keep blinding yourself to the other half?
What other half? I find minarchists like Friedman more despicable than honest welfare policies.
The half where theft for any reason is wrong and counter productive. What do you have against Friedman?
As I said elsewhere, theft is entirely subjective. We can take the long, historical debate over ownership versus use and occupancy, for example. One's claim to property diminishes the less they come into contact with that property. Friedman, like Hayek, has a love affair with authoritarianism if it promotes capitalism. Both men defended the Pinochet regime. I also wish Friedman would have repudiated himself more publicly after admitting that his original theories about monetary policy weren't that accurate. He moved more towards becoming a Keynesian.
No theft isn't subjective. Are you trying hard to become a one-dimensional villain in Atlas Shrugged who denies reality so that one doesn't ever have to see the means of their professed convictions?
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GeneCosta
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Quote: from Elm at 11:12 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 11:10 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Elm at 10:02 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:27 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Elm at 1:14 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from GeneCosta at 1:13 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
The state and its entire relationship with commercial enterprise.
See you get half the picture and you get the underlying problems - why do you keep blinding yourself to the other half?
What other half? I find minarchists like Friedman more despicable than honest welfare policies.
The half where theft for any reason is wrong and counter productive. What do you have against Friedman?
As I said elsewhere, theft is entirely subjective. We can take the long, historical debate over ownership versus use and occupancy, for example. One's claim to property diminishes the less they come into contact with that property. Friedman, like Hayek, has a love affair with authoritarianism if it promotes capitalism. Both men defended the Pinochet regime. I also wish Friedman would have repudiated himself more publicly after admitting that his original theories about monetary policy weren't that accurate. He moved more towards becoming a Keynesian.
-Snip- Are you trying hard to become a one-dimensional villain in Atlas Shrugged who denies reality so that one doesn't ever have to see the means of their professed convictions?
Gods. Referencing Ayn Rand now? One of the most irrelevant whiners in history.
No theft isn't subjective.
Yes it is. Stop being obtuse.
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Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man
how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. - Karl Marx
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