[ExI] Libertarianism wins again...

[Dan]

Your view of deregulation overlooks two significant facts. One, corporations are creatures of the state. Therefore, absent the state, they would all likely cease to exist.
 
Two, corporations are usually the biggest advocates of regulation. In fact, the largest ones typically lobby intensively for all manner of regulations and many major government programs -- in the US, the central bank and the "Obamacare" program -- are things large corporations not only pushed for but usually had a major hand in shaping.
 
And the biggest criminal of all, in any region, tends to be the state. It tends to kill and injure more, steal more, and coerce much more than any private criminal or evne private criminal organization can. To be sure, when a private individual or group starts to compete in murder, mayhem, and theft at the level of nation states, that's almost always because the person or group in question has become a state.
 
Regards,
 
Dan
From: Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Libertarianism wins again...


Deregulation will let the biggest organized criminals of all--the corporations--go unchecked.   

I simply believe government is, *by far*, the lesser of these two evils.  I will also heartily and readily admit that the current US government (and probably all current country governments) is pretty evil.  

However, if y'all really care about changing the world, it is my personal opinion that there is only one good way to do it in time.  A grand paternalism, if you will.  Human unity!  What could be better?  Individualism is selfish.  Don't tear me apart for that one!
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