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Old 05-29-2008, 11:52 AM   #98 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I thought you were done.

Just to be clear here is a definition of the concept:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/libertarianism

If we look at the historic basis of great societies and cultures at the basis there were the above concepts. You think this is incorrect?
ok, ace....you want to play semantics.

No "free market" concept, as loquitor suggested, has ever worked anywhere..anytime in history...without having a large, disenfranchised and disregarded lower class living on the edge of society and without basic necessities or living at the mercy of, or exploited by, the "monied" class.

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Originally Posted by loquitur
dc_dux, your complaint is that the benefits of capitalism don't distribute evenly, and indeed they don't. I'd rather have everyone decently housed and fed, even if some others lived in luxury, than have everyone be equal and miserable. Wouldn't you?
will, of course its a false choice.
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