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Wow.


Agree so hard about forced socialization. My work life and my social life should be two very separate things.


After I had a breakthrough LSD experience it was immediately obvious to me why it was banned. If you let everybody do it there would be a revolution.


No one on mushrooms fits this delusional strawman dude.


Yes. I absolutely hate when I want to load an article on my iPhone and it loads AMP. I remove that part of the URL to read the original source most of the time.


"FEE's mission is to inspire, educate, and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society.

These principles include: individual liberty, free-market economics, entrepreneurship, private property, high moral character, and limited government."

This site is propaganda. Flagging this article.


By the metric of "Site that has a position on the topic they cover", the ACLU, EFF and many other sites would be propaganda.

Sure, it's Reason-esque, but seems silly to flag it because you don't like their opinion.


There has never existed a "free market" in the libertarian ideal sense; markets are only able to exist under the system of a government.


This response sounds like "there has never been communism under real communism ideal sense", lel.


yeah, it does sound a bit like that, but when you factor in the reasons why a free market has never (and in my opinion should never) exist there starts to be a difference. Things like regulatory capture, monopolies, and exploitation of any possible resource are all systemic effects of capitalism. When capital (power) begets more capital (power), it should be no surprise that tactics that are underhanded but ultimately grant more capital (power) are the ones chose and that the system tends towards a consolidation of power in those that have more of it already. It's not saying anybody with money or power will automatically do those things, just that the system is set up to encourage that, so somebody probably will at some point.

To me, it's similar to looking at a voting system like first past the post and identifying that the system tends towards two parties as a fundamental nature of the system. Underlying motives and strategies of individuals within the system will produce this effect.

I'm not commention on the validity of the "no real communism" statement here, just the comparison of it to the "no real free market"


Nope.


Yep. Ding ding ding.


This reads like red pill cult brainwashing.


Sorry it came off like that. I assure you I don't ascribe to that sort of thing. I was mostly just speculating based off things I've read such as:

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

I've seen similar studies by OKCupid and others as well.


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