[dogecoinbase]

The entire economic system is built around people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves. You can try and paint that as inhumane and abusive...

Wow -- you're so damn close to the moment of insight, and yet so far.

[jasonisalive]

And the irony is that people like yourself, chasing phantoms of unfairness in the free market, support the extension and entrenchment of coercive governments, an institution which is and always will be eminently corruptible, an institution whose history is a litany of abuse and overreach.

[Frondo]

You sound like someone who's never actually gotten involved in politics.

Try getting in at the local level--volunteer for a state representative's campaign, or a local city/county commissioner. Get to know people, talk to them, see what it's really like.

What you're characterizing as "eminently corruptible" and full of "abuse and overreach" actually makes a lot more sense when you step out from behind the keyboard (and its steady supply of anti-government, libertarian websites) and get involved.

[haberman]

Absolutism in any direction here is folly. Without antitrust law capitalism becomes oligarchy.