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- joeth0
I saw a good chunk of that Stossel report. He can be pretty interesting, and I appreciate that there are people like him questioning gov't action. But he kept going on about that "spontaneous order." It works great for fish and birds and shit, but the difference between humans and animals is that we have the ability to get greedy and advantage of the system.
Plus, these systems don't just always just happen on their own. To use his ice skating example... Somebody had to build the rink. Somebody has to drive the Zamboni around and put up cones for people to follow. Somebody has to rent out skates. And if some jackass kid starts knocking people over for the fun of it, I'm sure somebody will be there to kick him out. People do need to be regulated to some degree or else greed and corruption will always take over. That's my opinion anyway.
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(first paragraph, last sentance)joeth - +1locustsloth
- nice analysis.killthefish
- The point of the skating rink has nothing to do with it's infrastructure and rental capabilities. What it DOEStommyo
- illustrate is that the notion that gov intervention impedes on our potential. HMO's are gov mandates that have effectivelytommyo
- killed the health industry...but they tell you it's greedy insurance companies. Which it is, but who MANDATED HMO'stommyo
- in 1973 I believe...who....gov... Their intervention, while done with good intentions fucked us all. Less Gov = More Opportunity.tommyo
- Read about how gov intervention caused what we have now: http://www.bestsyndi…tommyo
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