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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
 Wow, you just simultaneously defined socialism and capitalism.... impressive. |
Well, if by "capitalism," you mean "the exact opposite of capitalism," you are correct.
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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime....our present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under pretense of organizing it.
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You could take up the matter with Frederic Bastiat, who said the above, but he died over 150 years ago.
We could certainly benefit from the wisdom of a man such as he today.