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by atmosx
4512 days ago
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> Before you bash the free market and show me example of how it doesn't work, first look and realize that what you're pointing out to me is not actually a free market. That could be said for Nazism, Communism, Socialism and possibly every other socio-political out there: It's not the system, it's the implementation that's wrong. But I don't buy it. I used to be liberal myself, but now I don't believe in the skilled vs the unskilled, it's more likely to be the trained who had opportunities vs the untrained who had none and most likely you and I are in the first category. Out of curiosity though, could you answer the following questions: * Do you believe that education, energy, water, garbage, railways, lines (as in phone-lines, the network) should be private hands? * What happens when a player is so big that with every move disrupts the market? The state should step-in or let everything flow naturally? |
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True, those arguments can be said there, but don't apply here. Those are utopian ideas in that they require every individual, including the governing bodies, to be a saint in order to work. Not so with the free market, as a corruption in one organization leads to the ability for others to rise in their place (no "too big to fail" scenarios).
> Do you believe that education, energy, water, garbage, railways, lines (as in phone-lines, the network) should be private hands?
Yes. A lot of this work is already contracted out to private companies, which do a much better job for a much lower price. There's no reason to think they wouldn't do it themselves to make a profit. Which brings me to...
> What happens when a player is so big that with every move disrupts the market? The state should step-in or let everything flow naturally?
The state IS the biggest player so big that every move disrupts the market, thus creating more "big players" =) For example the government makes contracts with the big players, in the billions of dollars. That's tax payer money that's going to corporations instead of local smaller businesses, and the other guys can't compete. This is just one small example.
There are some good discussions on these topics here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/search?q=corporat...