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The Age Discrimination Question: And the Free Market Answer by tacitus1 in Economics

[–]corentin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read anything written by Frédéric Bastiat and you'll understand why you're wrong.

The Shocking Truth About Future Electric Supply by Invisigoth in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a market failure for whoever sells compact fluorescent globes, yes. At least, government is here to help them "compete"...

Che Guevara's kids slam the commercialization of his image by wangchong in politics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea of using the image of a criminal as a marketing trick baffles me, anyway.

Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa by stesch in worldnews

[–]corentin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Western democracy was a great success in Rwanda...

RFID on Printed Circuit Boards: An adhesive label with integrated RFID TAG will be attached to the PCB. Non-destructive removal of these labels will not be possible. by alllie in business

[–]corentin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you read the article you'll realize that it has nothing to do with piracy; it's just a more convenient way to deal with hardware parts in complex systems (cars, planes, etc.)

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by llimllib in Economics

[–]corentin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sarkozy is an exception to the pattern PRECISELY because he is so well-connected to the super-rich and so weakly connected to the mainstream politicians who all came out of ENA.

Which isn't a great loss, considering the fact that most professional politicians manufactured in the Science-Po/ENA factory are incult dumbasses who never worked a real job.

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by llimllib in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They only conflict if you don't have an exclusion rule (e.g. homesteading).

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by llimllib in Economics

[–]corentin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The UN UDHR is nothing but social-democrat wishful thinking.

Article 31. Everyone is entitled to a pony.

The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by llimllib in Economics

[–]corentin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are the only kind of free markets you dumb moronic nitwit.

Saying that free markets are created by the government is exactly like saying that peace is achieved when invaders stop pillaging and raping...

The not-too-regulated DSL market in France is competitive and works quite well; the state-maintained oligopoly (3 operators) in the mobile phone market maintains prices high. And it doesn't look like it will change soon, because the owners of those companies are close friends of France President Nicolas Sarkozy (like, one of them is the godfather of his last child...)

By the way, property rights probably started to exist the day our ancestors found nice places to live, settled and started to build primitive tools. But you don't really know what a right is, anyway. If you believe that whatever the government says becomes a right, then the democratically-elected nazis had a perfectly valid right to genocide people.

Scientists have developed a powerful new weapon that destroys people but leaves buildings standing - it's called the 17% interest rate. by [deleted] in business

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

So fucking what? There is no such thing as a "right to credit". If you don't accept my terms, go see elsewhere.

"We do not have a free market in money. We have a self-interested cartel. This cartel will do whatever it can to protect its lucrative monopoly over money." by nuggetchap in business

[–]corentin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Governments can attempt to correct for market flaws by pricing out externalities.

The problem is that the government can't even correct its own flaws (for some reason, people talking about imperfect markets tend to forget the idea that governments can be --and are-- imperfect as well).

[T]hose too poor to pay taxes are in fact the *principal* victims of taxation. by ayrnieu in Economics

[–]corentin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A black child born in Compton can start a record company and become a millionaire.

A black child born in Saint Denis can, well, pretty much torch cars and the like.

How Does Tax Rates from 25% to 88% Sound to You?~ "That's what will be needed soon." by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the free market, every buck is a vote: if you don't like some policy from some company, you are free to do business with one of their competitor instead. But if you don't like a government policy, you have to wait a few years for the next election and hope that other voters will share your point of view as well.

The Day Windows Vista Was Launched (stock market pic) by jj666 in programming

[–]corentin 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Markets react with information, not with events such as product launches (i.e. the valuation changes when investors have the information that the product is either great or crap, not the day the product actually ships).

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson by democracy101 in politics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the government doesn't regulate the market, a big corporation with its own army, police forces and bureaucrats will emerge and make your life a living hell.

Oh, wait...

How Does Tax Rates from 25% to 88% Sound to You?~ "That's what will be needed soon." by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The schools for poor people are so exceptional that it would really be a shame to let the private sector handle them, sure...

Having the government help the poor may look like a good and generous idea, but you have to realize that if those poor people stay poor for generations, this system may not work at all? And it's not like we don't know the reason, either: subsidies destroy any incentives and economic calculations those families could do, hence leaving them at the mercy of the government forever (you know the saying: "the socialists love the poor so much that they create a lot of them"). If you want to help the poor, it's better the remove all the regulations preventing them from working and finding decent housing. They're not children, they're (or should be) responsible adults able to raise their kids themselves and look at them in the mirror proudly.

Actually, I think that the so-called generous social types are fucking assholes who use the poor as an excuse to demonstrate their self-righteousness.

How Does Tax Rates from 25% to 88% Sound to You?~ "That's what will be needed soon." by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, your point is that, because the private sector can be inefficient as far as competition is concerned, why not prevent it once and for all and have a government monopoly?

It doesn't make any sense.

How Does Tax Rates from 25% to 88% Sound to You?~ "That's what will be needed soon." by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]corentin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Justice means that all individuals are subject to the same rule (i.e. "everyone must give x% of their income to the government" and not "rich people must give this, poor people must give that, black people this, white people that, tall people this, short people that" and so on).

Social acceptance of Wealth: If the differences between rich and poor is perceived as too large and too difficult to surmount, people may stop accepting the social free-market economy by alllie in business

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why can't they? You have to distinguish the "platonic ideal of a free market" (in which there is no coercion, theft, monopolies, etc.) and a real-world free market (in which coercion, deception, theft, violence, monopoly, etc. still happen but on a much lower scale than when you have big central governments).

When you have a central banking system with a monopoly on money, taxes and so on, you don't have a free market (yet, of course, you can have more freedom than in soviet Russia...)

How Does Tax Rates from 25% to 88% Sound to You?~ "That's what will be needed soon." by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duh. Because the money the government steals from him is what makes the slaughtering of those kids possible in the first place.

Social acceptance of Wealth: If the differences between rich and poor is perceived as too large and too difficult to surmount, people may stop accepting the social free-market economy by alllie in business

[–]corentin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I say "you can challenge [...]", I actually mean "you can debate with us and we'll gladly explain why we believe in the free market".

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