[mcpackieh]

The trick is to have neither unregulated free market capitalism nor communism, but instead a liberal democracy in which the government regulates and subsidizes the industry. You know, like the system western nations already have. Wild outlandish concept, I know. Not jumping to one political extreme or the other is a mind-blowing proposition for you I'm sure. There is a whole world of common sense sitting in between Ayn Rand and Stalin.

[Turing_Machine]

> Not jumping to one political extreme or the other is a mind-blowing proposition for you I'm sure.

I'm not the one advocating beating people with sticks.

[mcpackieh]

When people propose ideological "fixes" to a system which is already wildly successful at producing a massive surplus of food, the correct response is to beat them with sticks until they drop their ideological rambling and start thinking in terms of practical survival.

[Turing_Machine]

Beating people with sticks just because they disagree with you is never the "correct response" to anything.