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Thread: How I quit communism and leftism

  1. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    If we keep out the government from healthcare and education, will prices be cheaper, and are they affordable even to the poor?
    Possibly to both. Depends on the disease and treatment.
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    Pinochet is the model
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    Liberty preserving authoritarianism.
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    Enforced internal open borders was one of the worst elements of the Constitution.



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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCount View Post
    Possibly to both. Depends on the disease and treatment.
    Let's be honest. You can not cover everybody's brain transplant.



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  5. #33
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    If we keep out the government from healthcare and education, will prices be cheaper, and are they affordable even to the poor?
    At least in the USA, in the times before the government thought it needed to rescue health care for the poor, doctors were greatly respected for their outright charitable behavior, or their willingness to accept very little payment from those that had very little to give (having in mind the so-called "country doctor"). The spirit of the oath they take was more greatly honored than the current system where they are damn near hamstrung in their attempts to behave in the manner of their forebears.

    Schools are not altogether different in this regard. Communities often pitched in to obtain a schoolhouse and pay the salary of a teacher. Costs, unsurprisingly, were much lower. Costs could not exceed what the community could handle, so no rapacious behavior on the behalf of the educators could amount to anything. There was no government trying to throw inexhaustible amounts of money at them.

    Whatever government touches turns to gold plated $#@!. All the cost, none of the function.

  6. #34
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    If we keep out the government from healthcare and education, will prices be cheaper, and are they affordable even to the poor?
    That's what the evidence shows. The world's poorest are choosing low-cost private schools over the government schools.

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  7. #35
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    What about tax dollars?
    Taxation is robbery.

    Period.
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    There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.

    It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.

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  8. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by BSWPaulsen View Post
    Whatever government touches turns to gold plated $#@!. All the cost, none of the function.

    This should be in the constitution. +rep

  9. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    What about Scandinavian countries they provide free healthcare?
    Welcome friend. One thing you should search your soul on is this fundamental question: What are rights and where do they come from?

    I would contend that natural rights are life, liberty, and property. Governments are instituted among men to secure these rights, not to grant them. Rights do NOT come from government. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have... this is not freedom. Anything that requires another person to pay for it (Healthcare, for example) is NOT a right.

    You have a journey ahead of you, to be sure, but a logical and clear thinking person will arrive at the conclusion that men are, and of right ought to be, free.
    There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
    -Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,
    Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
    Author of, War is a Racket!

    It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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  11. #39
    Good job, joining RPF is a great advanced studies course into the liberty movement.

    Its not easy to swing from SJWism to classical liberalism, although it seems you came this way because you were eaten by your own.

    Keep your mind open and I'm sure one day you will also finally understand that capitalism is not unfair and healthcare is not a human right.
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  12. #40
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    I am a 22-year-old Arab male college student from Lebanon, and I used to be a communist and an SJW male feminist somehow. I adopted both ideologies because I have good intentions and being naïve I became indoctrinated by my professors. Communism is great in theory, but it is a failed system and is even more unfair than capitalism.
    Capitalism is the fairest system possible. This is because it's based on freedom. The freedom to agree or disagree and the freedom to choose. The fact that not every interaction in a capitalist system turns out to be fair, does not mean it is not the fairest system there is. Because, it is. If I have a product or a skill, and I get to choose to who I sell that, for how much, when and every other variable, then what could be fairer than that ?
    "I am a bird"



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  14. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Capitalism is the fairest system possible. This is because it's based on freedom. The freedom to agree or disagree and the freedom to choose. The fact that not every interaction in a capitalist system turns out to be fair, does not mean it is not the fairest system there is. Because, it is. If I have a product or a skill, and I get to choose to who I sell that, for how much, when and every other variable, then what could be fairer than that ?
    I agree, capitalism is not perfect but certainly it is the most ethical system.

  15. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    I agree, capitalism is not perfect but certainly it is the most ethical system.
    Indeed, but when we agree on the fact that humans are not perfect it logically extends from there that no system ever will be perfectly fair.

    By the way, welcome to the forums. Also, I've heard Beirut is an awesome city when it comes to the nightlife, is that still true ? I may have to visit some time. I don't speak Arabic though.
    "I am a bird"

  16. #43
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    I may have to visit some time. I don't speak Arabic though.
    No problem. We'll take your money.

  17. #44
    Go to the mises institue http://mises.org and read something everyday. Or if you enjoy listening to lectures start here: https://mises.org/library/audiovideo?page=1

    I've spent the past decade listening to mises.org lectures - approx 3000 now.

  18. #45
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Indeed, but when we agree on the fact that humans are not perfect it logically extends from there that no system ever will be perfectly fair.

    By the way, welcome to the forums. Also, I've heard Beirut is an awesome city when it comes to the nightlife, is that still true ? I may have to visit some time. I don't speak Arabic though.
    Night life's what keeping our economy surviving.
    It peaks starting from late April to August.

  19. #46
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Indeed, but when we agree on the fact that humans are not perfect it logically extends from there that no system ever will be perfectly fair.

    By the way, welcome to the forums. Also, I've heard Beirut is an awesome city when it comes to the nightlife, is that still true ? I may have to visit some time. I don't speak Arabic though.
    And most Lebanese People speak English & French

  20. #47
    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn.AL.Muqafaa View Post
    Then how do u maintain your infrastructure?
    It's very hard to compete with a service that gives itself away to the consumer for free.

    For example, roads are multi-million dollar investments. What kind of person would buy up land for millions and pave roads for millions, when there's a free service with a similar offering throughout the country? He would hardly get any business.

    That's why you don't see private roads very often. Although, you still see private toll roads in circumstances where the free market is still so much better than the $0 price road system that it's still profitable to make a private competitor. Imagine how bad the $0 price public system must be for the private toll roads to still be a better deal.

    If a person had to pay a private fee for those private roads, we can apply free market economic theory to predict that the typical person would still be paying less than if his money were taken from him by taxation to pay for the project.

    You may wonder about circumstances where it's not profitable for someone to invest, for example remote country roads. The reality is that those roads are already privately built, and the government didn't build them anyway. In many countries across the world, people simply clear a dirt road without any investment from the government. In places where traffic demand is more frequent, companies invest in the opportunity to provide infrastructure services.

    I think the only legitimate argument against private roads is the reality that they receive some of their value from exclusive land titles, which is a monopoly given by the state. However, because roads exist among other road systems in a vast 2-dimensional grid, there are many possible alternatives in choices, which would make it more like a potential oligopoly. A market oligopoly would still provide better economic outcomes than a monopoly of the state.

    Free market capitalism is not a panacea, but it provides empirically better results than other systems. Socialists promise a panacea, but that's how you know they are either lying or they never actually reviewed the evidence. If you look at the evidence, the free market always provides better quality (if necessitated by demand), more quantity (if necessitated by demand), and a lower price in the aggregate.
    Last edited by MRK; 04-02-2017 at 10:58 PM.

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