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Tired of capitalism? There could be a better way.
Washington Post ^ | 9-30-15 | Matt Bruenig

Posted on 10/01/2015 2:51:34 PM PDT by dynachrome

"Matt Bruenig is researcher of poverty and welfare systems at the think tank Demos."

By now, it is well established that capitalism is fundamentally built upon threats of force. As libertarian philosophers Robert Nozick and Matt Zwolinski have explained, the only way to turn unowned natural resources (such as land, minerals and other goods) into privately owned property is by violently preventing all others from using them. This one-sided exclusion destroys freedom of movement and cuts many people off from the things that they need to survive.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basicincome; capitalism; coldwar; demos; forgettingthepast; insanity; liberaldemos; marxism; marxistcrapwriter; miltonfriedman; minimumwage; negativeincometax; obamarecession; obamataxhikes; thinktank; ubi; universalbasicincome; ussr
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More: "True freedom requires freedom from destitution and freedom from the demands of the employer. Capitalism ensures neither, but a universal basic income, if successful, could provide both."

This cupcake will do well under muzzie jihadist rule

1 posted on 10/01/2015 2:51:35 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

How can we be tired of capitalism? We haven’t tried it in a LONG time.


2 posted on 10/01/2015 2:52:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: dynachrome; Norm Lenhart

Guys that should be thrown in jail for leftist advocacy. Time to make it a crime.


3 posted on 10/01/2015 2:53:03 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: dynachrome

Because what we need more than anything else right now is MORE government control!!

Won’t that be nice?


4 posted on 10/01/2015 2:55:35 PM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: dynachrome

Someone is going to own it. It can be the king, or it can be the guy who bought it.

Given the choice of a world with a million kings, in which if you don’t like this king you can go down the street and choose another, versus a single king who owns and controls everything, most people seem to prefer a single king.


5 posted on 10/01/2015 2:55:59 PM PDT by marron
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To: dynachrome

6 posted on 10/01/2015 2:56:27 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: dynachrome

DEMOS is a pack of Statist wankers.


7 posted on 10/01/2015 2:56:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dynachrome
"Matt Bruenig is researcher of poverty and welfare systems at the think tank Demos."

Meanwhile, over at Republican think tank, "Phobos," the geniuses were hiding under their desks...

8 posted on 10/01/2015 2:57:13 PM PDT by FredZarguna (A Kenyan appears to have infiltrated the lumberyard.)
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To: dynachrome
the only way to turn unowned natural resources (such as land, minerals and other goods) into privately owned property is by violently preventing all others from using them.

And the only way to "equitably" distribute those resources to people who haven't earned them is by violently taking them from those who have.

I prefer a system that rewards in direct proportion to effort, not some bureaucrat's idea of equity.

9 posted on 10/01/2015 2:57:31 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: dynachrome

“the only way to turn unowned natural resources (such as land, minerals and other goods) into privately owned property is by violently preventing all others from using them.”

WTF?


10 posted on 10/01/2015 2:58:00 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: dynachrome

So this guys answer to the perceived “acquisition by force” is to use force

He needs to read Hobbs little book the Leviathan


11 posted on 10/01/2015 2:58:46 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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I wonder. Do they oppose the idea of private property in all cases? Or only in some?

Do they believe that anyone who chooses is free to take what they want from anyone?

More to the point - do they believe that any random stranger is fully justified in taking the product of their labor, without recompense?

Or is it just those other people they think it’s OK for people to steal from?


12 posted on 10/01/2015 2:59:05 PM PDT by jdege
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To: dynachrome
I didn't read the article because I know that capitalism is nothing more than free market economics...a man or woman trading their labor for a profit.

There is no better way.

When we produce/create and meet a market need, we survive.

Nothing else works.

13 posted on 10/01/2015 2:59:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
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To: dynachrome

Can you point to ONE socialist economy which has worked. Just one will do.


14 posted on 10/01/2015 3:00:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
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To: dynachrome

Is this some sort of Sales pitch to move to Venezuela??


15 posted on 10/01/2015 3:00:45 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: dynachrome

Perhaps you should take your socialist backside over to Daily Kos.


16 posted on 10/01/2015 3:01:57 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
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To: Daffynition; All

17 posted on 10/01/2015 3:02:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: dynachrome
but a universal basic income, if successful,

Aye, and there's the rub eh? Show me one place on Earth where this little utopian set up has ever been successful for anyone but those at the top of the food chain.

18 posted on 10/01/2015 3:02:54 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: eyeamok

note that tiny little work

IF


19 posted on 10/01/2015 3:03:04 PM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: RoosterRedux

I think you’re shooting the messenger.

The comment in post one doesn’t support the material.


20 posted on 10/01/2015 3:03:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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