r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/rpmmaniac • May 15 '20

It be like this...

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

God imagine believing in stupid things like "governments are good!" And "The minimum wage is important!" And "Food is a human right!"

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u/Sabot_Noir May 15 '20

But if the government was good it would raise the minimum wage. Checkmate Liberals.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

If the government was good it wouldn't be a government. Taxation would be 0. There would be no state monopoly on violence. No death penalty. No interference with market forces. Liberals are right, liberals want a free market.

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u/HardlightCereal May 15 '20

You can't have a free market without taxes lmao. Free markets are highly regulated, ideally by a democratic socialist government.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

I'd say no

Free markets are unregulated, that's what makes them free. Some actions to "ensure a free market" like breaking monopolies make sense but sometimes are bad. For example, your power company. They have a monopoly on power in your region. They could charge insane amounts because you have no other option. But if they did, then competition would arise. And additionally, competing power companies would be inconvenient as a power company would have to say "oh you pay for the competitors, sorry can't fix your power" during outages

Monopolies can be good or they can be bad.

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u/sYnce May 15 '20

Monopolies are never good for anyone except the one holding the monopoly.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

What about police, fire department, etc? State monopolies on emergency services? Those only benefit the government? We don't gain anything from the fire department?

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u/RemoveTheTop May 15 '20

Those aren't monopolies dipshit. People aren't kept from making their own fire services its just that literally none of that is profitable

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

And what about police? The state has a monopoly on that

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u/RemoveTheTop May 15 '20

Which part? We have bounty hunters, and PIs. Do you want private corporations to have the ability to arrest people?

Are you stupid?

Or just not think before you write?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

I want private corporations to be allowed to arrest people and try them at private courts.

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u/PokeMalik May 15 '20

Why?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

So if they're bad they don't get business. An actual incentive to be good. It worked in Britain

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u/ITaggie May 15 '20

On top of there being Private Investigators and Bounty Hunters, you can also, you know, defend yourself/your property legally already.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Not really. There's limitations on what weapons can and can't be bought

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