[ExI] Private and government R&D
Dan
dan_ust at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 2 15:53:40 UTC 2009
--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Eschatoon Magic <eschatoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course in a really free market,
> withdrawing a loan is not coercion.
> But when the powers collaborate behind the scenes to
> protect their
> power, the market is not free.
>
> Our economy is more like the typical situation portrayed in
> mafia
> movies: greedy government officers AND organized crime
> collaborate to
> create and mantain a money machine for themselves.
But the solution to this is what? To increase the level of coercion by also stealing from others to fund projects you or I like? Instead, shouldn't the solution be to lower the level of coercion -- in this case, by removing government power to control loans and the money supply?
Regards,
Dan
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