This may seem shocking to you, but lots of people simply do not care for democracy nor it’s associated social ailments.
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No. In order to have a free market, you need extremely complex legal machinary to have corporations, currency, monetary, and trade policy, then you have intellectual property, you need law enforcement to protect corporations, and to protect property from people who want it, etc.
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So mercantilism is the capitalist state of nature? Do you think Queen Elizabeth read The Road to Serfdom?pic.twitter.com/2ZPfrgvOXf
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Merely illustrating the fact markets can exist outside the set of conditions you proposed above. All I’d did was post a map that proved your assumption false, nowhere did I say anything about mercantilism and its relation to capitalism.
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Perhaps you should stop projecting preconceived notions of what you think an NRxer or a libertarian would believe or say on me and simply engage with the ideas and concepts I articulate in a vacuum
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I’m not exactly ideologically allergic to state-led markets (I.e China). You heard me say market and jumped to the conclusion that I’m some sort of libertarian. I was merely referring to optimization via competing for consumers.
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The kernel of this engagement isn’t free market vs alternatives. It’s that I’m arguing democracy and liberty are incompatible. And that the will of the mob is foolish governance theory.
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Stop trying to rhetorically “own” me and try to understand these ideas. Not agree with them. Just understand it.
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