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There's one thing we're doing wrong to North Korea, which is to impose sanctions.

It doesn't work, like it hasn't worked for decades against Cuba, and many other countries we have antagonized. Sanctions give their rulers a way of blaming any problem on the outside world, using nationalistic pride to rally public support for their cause. Sanctions also don't affect the rulers or the rich elite, who can always smuggle whatever they want for the right price.

Sanctions are acts of war. Exactly what North Korea needs to close itself up, militarily and otherwise, screwing poor north koreans over in the process.

Bad idea #3: calling him a silly puppy.

@00Scud00 if businesses collude to keep prices high, their enemy are other businesses not profiting from that collusion. Getting into the fold cuts into their profits.

Big businesses use government to regulate the market and skew costs in their favor, raising barriers of entry to competitors.

If government is removed from the picture, yes, it's one less person to bribe. It also removes all those barriers, and all unfair advantages big businesses currently enjoy.

With free markets, as with most freedoms, it's not all unicorns and rainbows, quite the opposite. There will be plenty of abuse and unfairness to go around. However, being free from a mountain of laws and bureaucracy, without anyone to come crying to, begging authority to right all wrongs, society will be more flexible, creative, responsible, and inclined to solve problems on its own. People are better at solving problems than bureaucrats, and they'll more likely do so if they have to do it themselves.

It's like the internet. I believe most problems on the internet today can be solved technologically. Is that magical thinking? I don't think so.

Sure, there's a role for a few legal rules, but they should always be kept to a minimum. Let people figure things out creatively, without resorting to violence. Add too many laws to the internet, and it'll be bogged down. People will try less to come up with creative solutions, and resort more to petitioning their representatives.

I resent the insinuation that I use free market as a mantra. I'm trying to clear its name. It currently enjoys a terrible and undeserved reputation.

What breed is that? They look like Akita, but... uglier

I like the libertarian approach, which is to keep government out of marriage. Society should be allowed to evolve and people allowed to freely associate without the forceful constraints of the law on social institutions and conventions.

We shouldn't have to care what politicians think about gay marriage, why wait for them to have their own personal moments of insight (or political opportunism) so they can decide these issues for the rest of us? Take the institution of marriage out of their hands, take away their power over it.

It's unfair for them to dictate to society what marriage means, one way or the other. Let society embrace change in its own way and time.

I love how he looks at the camera afterwards, "did you see that?"

I bet the narrator has male pattern baldness.

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He should leave it at 23hz for a while to collect all that water he wasted

@vaire2ube and who do you think sticks an insurance company between you and your doctor? It shouldn't be that way!

If the market were allowed to push prices down, people would resort less to insurance and pay for medical services through other means. You can thank the collusion of government and big business for keeping prices high and making health insurance such a big part of healthcare. Now it's even mandatory. They're forcing you to pay for their costly shitty services.

Don't think government has your best interests at heart when they "extend health care benefits" or whatnot, it's just more meddling engendered to stifle the market, to keep competition out, and help big business with whatever makes them more money.

So, you're blaming BIG BUSINESS. I'm blaming BIG BUSINESS + GOVERNMENT. You can't get rid of big businesses, you shouldn't. You can, however, relieve their unfair entrenchment in the market, by getting GOVERNMENT out of the equation.

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I wish it were real, though...

@Rufus so, freedom, to you, is synonymous with pervasive violence? Is that what you were told as a small child?

Hey, if only government just protected our lives and property, I'd be very happy about it. You do realize that's roughly why libertarians often talk about a limited government, right?

Too bad it isn't limited at all, far from it. It uses violence a lot more than it should, in ways you don't know about or haven't carefully considered. Probably both. Hell, it even scared you into fearing freedom.

@petpeeved so you're saying government price fixing by bureaucrats is the solution, because they're better judges of "real world supply and demand" than the collective judgements of millions of people trading vigorously every day? Wow, if only it was you running the centrally planned economy of Soviet Russia, I bet we could have stopped its apparently avoidable collapse.

You think the health and healthcare industry is "unfettered capitalism"? That's so delusional I don't know where to start. It's one of the most regulated industries in America. That's government intervention for you. Why do you think there's so much disgusting lobbying for special interests? Because government is everywhere, you can't move an inch without greasing the hand of a dirty bureaucrat.

Get government out of healthcare, and there will be no laws to protect the crooked big businesses. Let the industry compete with higher quality and lower prices, like any business tends to do in less regulated environments.

It's curious how opponents of "free market capitalism" lend so much of their imagination conjuring twisted fantasies of its cruelty, yet spare none of it for all the likely productive solutions that would thrive in such an unrestrained collaborative environment.

Freedom is so scary...

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