[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

you kind of force people to enter into rent because they can’t afford houses and you control the rent however you want.

The landlords are providing a service to those who can't afford houses, and the tenants, through economic calculation, determine that it's better to pay for a department rather that saving for a house.

In fact, deficit spending, printing fiat money and manipulating interest rates harm savings and relative prices.

"If there seems to be a shortage of supply to meet an evident demand, then look to government as the cause of the problem."

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

If the person renting a home stops paying, the landlord will use force to evict the person.

In this case, the force applied by the landlord is legimitate because the tenant is not performing their contractual obligations over the property of the landlord.

You didn’t pay taxes? Here, lemme force you to stay in prison for a while, also here’s a fine on top of that.

There is no contract between the government and citizen that legitimize the violence of the state. Any theory of a "social contract" will be unilateral by nature. Actually, the state itself is a threat to the Non-Agression Principle.

Not all contracts are voluntary and, more importantly, the workers are almost always the weaker party when it comes to negotiation.

The asymmetries of power between both parties does not mean the contract is not voluntary. In fact, any government intervention in the labor market will make this situation worse, as these encourage poverty and harm those workers who are the less productive in the market.

If you leave it to the market to “self-regulate”, you’ll just get feudalism 2.0, where companies become the new noble houses

As long as private property is not violated by institutional coercion; as long as the system of prices is not manipulated by any government policy; as long as human action and his natural rights are respected: social cooperation through the division of labor will flourish, as voluntary exchange is the source of economic progress.

Indeed, civilization itself is inconceivable in the absence of private property. Any encroachment on property results in loss of freedom and prosperity, as property is the only way to resolve conflicts by the existence of scarce resources.

The market is a process, not an "equilibrium model". It is not designed, but emerged from human action.

Really, any sufficiently big company will act just like a govt, full of unnecessary bureaucracy

The difference is that having market concentration does not mean being a monopoly. In fact, a monopoly is a government-grant privilege, for gaining legal rights to be a preferred producer is the only way to maintain a monopoly in a market setting.

The state can not have direct consumer feedback; it can not act economically. Instead, it collects taxes and spends them arbitrarily following interest groups.

"In a market economy, the range of quality, quantity, and type of goods and services correspond to social needs. These goods are services that are valued by consumers, and hence, they will be provided if it is economically feasible to do so relative to other social priorities."

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Government police "services" must be abolished.

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago
[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

The free market is not, as the social Darwinists imagine, a struggle between rich and poor, strong and weak. It is the principal means by which human beings cooperate in order to live. If each of us had to produce all his food and shelter by himself, almost no one could survive. The existence of large-scale society depends absolutely on social cooperation through the division of labor.

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Consequently, the greater the sphere of public as opposed to private education, the greater the scope and intensity of conflict in social life. For if one agency is going to make the decision: sex education or no, traditional or progressive, integrated or segregated, etc., then it becomes particularly important to gain control of the government and to prevent one’s adversaries from taking power themselves. Hence, in education as well as in all other activities, the more that government decisions replace private decision-making, the more various groups will be at each others’ throats in a desperate race to see to it that the one and only decision in each vital area goes its own way.

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Qué bueno, che

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We need thousands of companies to be forced to do zero waste perfectly.

Forced by who? By an oligarchy of politicians that are being influenced by those companies, and viceversa?

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, interesting. Why did those workers made the iphone in the first place?

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know too much about the MAGA movement, as I'm not american, but thanks for sharing your views.

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Part of a larger quote, but I agree with it.

I don't like representative democracy.

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Better it goes into government so at least people can vote to change it.

We can't change it. Politicians would still have their monopolical powers because they help each other. Don't trust the government. Billionaires not only influence it, they also receive help from them.

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