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by ivan_gammel 3433 days ago
There's no much sense to argue here with French liberal from the XIX century who fought against mercantilism. These views are obsolete and naive, simply because he was neither familiar with the governments and laws of XXI century, nor he knew about economics as much as we know today. It's also quite sad that a quote replaced personal opinion.
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Principles are timeless.

It is sad you ethics and morality have a experation date, and the quote did not replace my personal opinion as I agree 100% with the quote, that is why I quoted it.

One does not have to reinvent the wheel every time an idea needs to be rebutted, People use quotes as a shortcut to highlight their personal opinions many times in more articulate ways then they could themselves or simply to save time which is what I have done here.

i am not going to write out a 5000 word essay on the problems with government in a HN comment that about 3 people will read