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Message: [QUOTE="dj11, post: 1146076, member: 13851"] I have started to respond to you Zach at least 3 times, never hitting the submit button. While I truly believe, you believe what you are thinking, this boils down, IMO, to the big problem with the Libertarian mindset, and most Free Market Capitalist. They are pretty similar. With either of those mindsets, there is an assumption that the issue of the economy is a contained, limited population of like minded people. Neither ever has addressed the real problem. There are 6 BILLION people involved here. That could easily be 8-10 Billion by the next census. That free market capitalism model assumes that 3 billion of them could be successful Free Marketeers. This is of course, absurd. It never has accounted for the fact that most of those 6 billion, are either incompetent, incapable,or educated insufficiently to succeed in a pure free market. The whole notion of a pure free market, begins to look like a survival of the fittest scenario. Think Conan. Think Barbarian Hoards. Somewhere along the lines, the overwhelmingly vast majority (99.999999999999...%) of humans decided to adopt the Social Contract: In essence, I will not kill you, but in exchange, I expect a decent life. The free market approach denies that decent life bye effectively allowing the (financial) killing of individuals. Granted this is a bit simplistic, but it is what it is. When the free market mindset shows it can incorporate everyone, not just a privileged few (or even many), then it will properly self regulate. It won't happen. Almost by definition, it can't happen. And so it becomes necessary for the masses (governments) to impose regulation. Specific question for Zach, or any Pure Free Market Capitalist; What will you propose/do when 1/2 the folks around you are hungry and pissed? [/QUOTE]

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