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by aww_dang 1713 days ago
Property rights are a fundamental cornerstone of society. Rejecting them is incoherent. Infringing on another person's property is synonymous with coercion. Perhaps next you'll venture that self-defense is a bourgeois construct?

As for Amazon, maybe look more closely at the government interventions in the financial markets. Yes, Bezos is an entrepreneurial figure. He is also symptomatic of an artificially supported economic system. The central bank injects liquidity. Financial markets acquire it first, and consumers are left with the inflation.

I would argue that large concerns like Amazon are enabled by the current paradigm. We could describe it as a tax by other means and price fixing of interest rates.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-borrows-%2410-billion...

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You've constructed a straw man (I never rejected property rights) while ignoring my actual point. This tendentious behavior is typical of fundamentalists, fundamentalist libertarians included. Unless you can do better, I think we're done here.
Bezos owns property, therefore he is coercing others. You conflate voluntary exchange and private ownership with coercion. It is fundamentally nonsense. You'll have to forgive me for having a hard time with this, it seems to be a terrible stretch.

As for libertarianism, observing that adds no more to the conversation than me calling you a socialist, statist or authoritarian.