[ExI] Usages of the term libertarianism

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Mr Jones <mrjones2020 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> and replace it in the popular narrative with
>> its polar opposite ("capital rules the roost unchecked").
>
> So you're honestly trying to tell me here, that the problem isn't deception
> by way of capital's influence, but actually the govt trying to influence
> capital?

### Precisely.

  I sure hope this isn't your message, and that I've merely
> interpreted it incorrectly.  So what then...Just let the rich go ahead and
> run the show their way?  After all, they won't do anything to hurt us,
> having their eyes only set on quarterly profits and share prices?\

### The mere existence of a hierarchical, centralized power structure
(a.k.a. the government) provides the opportunities for the few to
exert influence they would have absolutely no chance of achieving in a
situation where decision-making is distributed (a.k.a. the free
market).

Remember, the government is first of all, its own friend. Then it's a
friend of those with time and money to spare to influence it (big
activist, big media, big business). You and I are just a little pest.
On the other hand, since the workers of this world are the true source
of most wealth, in a world where no one can take what you produce
against your will, i.e. in a free market, we would be its rulers,
through independent exercise of our will in the form of free trade
with other free men, not through attempts at coercing others by voting
to direct hired gunmen.

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> Make no mistake, I'm no govt fan-boy, certainly not our current crop/system.
>  But to think that $$$ could do a better job is absurd.
>

### Money should rule the world. Money made by workers, and kept by
workers, rather than made up of thin air by bureaucrats and
redistributed to their clients.

Rafal