[ExI] Belief in Free Market Efficiency

[Thomas]

> Regardless of how one feels about regulation it is obvious that  
> slavery
> can not be part of a free market system.  By definition.  [...]
>
> Fred


Thanks, Fred, for answering Damien for me.

By freedom we do not mean license.  We mean freedom from violence.   
So "Free" market efficiency differs from the type of "efficiency"  
that characterized bloodthirsty dictators like Stalin.

> spike wrote:
>
>> True free markets assume every person equal and free.

>  The curious thing is that communist soteriology, for example, or  
> so I gather, makes the very same assumption.
>
> Damien Broderick

Equality for all and eternal life have always made good sales  
pitches.  I prefer to trust someone who offers to treat me well (with  
courtesy, honesty and respect) NOW, rather than after a 5 year plan  
or New Deal.  I liked Ron Paul because he advocated abolishing the  
IRS and the Federal Reserve Bank rather than a "stimulus package/ 
deferred enormous enforced debt."

> Someone want to tell me again about how blind the justice system is?
>
> Damien Broderick


The motto on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court (and front page of  
U.S. law books) reads "Equal Justice Under Law."
However, if you look past that first page you discover the "corporate  
veil."  These laws once deprived me of impartial justice since I  
could not afford to file a new case naming the statutory agent for  
corporation instead of the individuals who failed to pay me as  
agreed.  The concept of collective ownership trumping individual  
rights needs reform!  Rich white people in corporate gangs do not a  
free market make!

> An exception might be made on compassionate grounds for
> transferring some wealth to those who are poor and unable to work, but
> certainly not for transferring wealth from the workers to the rich and
> powerful.
> -- 
> Stathis Papaioannou


In a free market we "transfer" wealth only by our own free choice,  
not by threat of violence.

-- Thomas






Thomas at ThomasOliver.net

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