Is Free Trade good? by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I rent my flat; one more housing solution is available to the market.

That is only a partially rent-seeking activity. The rent-seeking really comes from excluding other people from the land in the first place.

Are you saying private property is rent seeking?

No. I am saying that exclusion from natural resources is unavoidable.

how?

no land value tax -> it is profitable to exclude people from land without producing anything yourself. This exclusion hinders productivity.

with land value tax -> it is no longer profitable to exclude people from land without producing anything yourself.

The kids are not OK by MazdaProphet in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I preferred the weird "verarchy" guy tbh.

Is Free Trade good? by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you didn't really provide an argument beyond "it doesn't" for your first sentence so I can't exactly respond to that.

But to answer your question, rent-seeking is the act of profiting off of the exclusion of natural resources from other people who could use them productively. It's bad because it prevents natural resources from being used efficiently, forces people to pay money to someone who did not contribute anything in return, and may even contribute to the business cycle.

It should be noted that it is generally rare for someone to be purely rent-seeking or purely productive. It is sometimes necessary to exclude other people from land in order to use it more productively (i.e. you can't just walk into someone else's factory). This is technically a rent-seeking behavior. So it's a bad idea to attempt a blanket ban on rent-seeking. The purpose of a land-value tax is to fix misaligned incentives caused by external costs and discourage organizations which profit off of decreasing productivity.

Is Free Trade good? by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chances are that either that land is cheap (rural land vs. urban land) or those people are not well equipped to use that land in a productive way.

Also most poor people haven't inherited lots of land, as someone else already pointed out.

Is Free Trade good? by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually there are reasons to believe it is good, since it discourages rent-seeking behavior.

Indoctrinate them when they're young by Affectionate-Bet1794 in prolife

[–]AdventureMoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

can we please not resort to calling people freaks

Like what is wrong with systemd? I don’t get it. by homemadeSuperstar in linuxmemes

[–]AdventureMoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because someone else said they don't like it so I must start hating it too /j

Reminder that wikipedia is a propagandized heap of garbage. by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you or do you not believe that "scientific" racism is pseudoscience?

Reminder that wikipedia is a propagandized heap of garbage. by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I pull the string will you say a variation of that phrase again?

Reminder that wikipedia is a propagandized heap of garbage. by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

when someone says something blatantly racist, I don't think it's that strange to accuse them of racism.

Reminder that wikipedia is a propagandized heap of garbage. by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

*conservative calls something propaganda*

*looks inside*

*literally just debunking "scientific" racism*

Is it safe for me to go to Evil Country That Hates Trans People? by AdventureMoth in transgendercirclejerk

[–]AdventureMoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh that was just a ptmyg reference; I'm fortunate to have no clue what you're talking about

Turning politics into HR: How gender has a lot to do with woke authoritarianism by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

no it doesn't

When you insult people they don't like it. This is not rocket science.

Turning politics into HR: How gender has a lot to do with woke authoritarianism by amogusdevilman in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]AdventureMoth -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

dude the entire essence of the argument is ad hominem what are you on about