sirponm

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The Constitution Was a Coup(lucasvance.github.io)
13 points by sirponm 9mo ago|6 comments
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by sirponm 10mo ago
Allegedly. And just so happened to create a massive cost barrier to competition from smaller companies.
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by sirponm 10mo ago
How is control over production not part of the market?
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by sirponm 10mo ago
Walmart uses it a lot more than I do. Civeng principles show that road damage rises to the fourth power of axle weight, a fully loaded tractor-trailer does roughly 10k times structural damage of a passenger car but they definitely don'
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by sirponm 10mo ago
I'm not sure if you read more than the title... this isn't socialism. Yet even the title suggests that it isn't socialism. Instead, this uses the selfishness that the free market is built upon and removes the capitalist wealt
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by sirponm 10mo ago
The things you recognize are the tragedies of authoritarianism in all forms to me: nobody can possibly understand the system that well, and central planning simply doesn't work whether it's in a State or a company, because it just
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by sirponm 10mo ago
Oops I forgot to respond to the other things you mentioned. That list of removed obstacles is technically correct, but it misses that those things were mostly subsidized 1. Regarding transportation, the interstate highway system and the con
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by sirponm 10mo ago
I'm so glad that you mentioned railroads because there is a great book, Railroads and Regulation by Gabriel Kolko about the capitalist anti-competiton regulation of the railroad industry that caused their concentration. If you wanna re
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by sirponm 10mo ago
I don't know if I totally understand these theories but I think modern market anarchists would say that a "freed" (anti-capitalist) market does use prices, and further strips rent/interest/privilege to make those pr
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Socialist ends by market means: A history(lucasvance.github.io)
87 points by sirponm 10mo ago|119 comments