tinfoilhat, my point here is yes you could "try central planning", but it wouldn't be very effective. In the same way that "yes you could try tippy toe walking to brisbane from sydney" but it wouldn't be as effective as getting on a plane or driving in your car.
You missed my sentence immediately after that where I clarified what I meant
I fully acknowledge that democracy is a flawed system and support a change to anarchism.
I'm not sure you're understanding the point of the profit motive. The profit motive is used as a signal for businessmen to produce...
I'm not saying it's impossible to centrally plan at all, I'm saying it's impossible to centrally plan and allocate resources in an efficient manner. As in, to use central planning is to waste resources and make people's lives poorer than they would otherwise be.
Well to really get anywhere within democracy you often have to make compromises and you can't really stick to your principles because the game is played in such a way that you can't stick to those principles. Look at the libertarian party in the US, Murray Rothbard and stuff were originally...
No, it's also a bad idea cos central planning is impossible. More accurately speaking, rational economic calculation is impossible under central planning. Google the socialist calculation problem for info on this.
Not only is communism bad in practice, it's also a terrible theory. I'm so...
Voting and following a democratic path of changing government requires a lot of specific time and energy in political campaigning as opposed to talking about why the state is illegitimate/hindering society's progress.
To argue that ACists should "play the game" is missing the broader overall...
Ok waf:
1. I agree that 10 is better than 20, but the point here is that just always choosing the "lesser of the two" won't bring any kind of real change in a positive direction. All it could ever do is slow the growth of the state, and that's not a desirable position because I prefer zero...
moll, if your post is directed towards me then you are misrepresenting/misunderstanding my position:
1. i don't support an authoritarian one party system, this is the opposite of what I want as a free market anarchist
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This is a commonly cited "problem" used to justify the imposition of a...
The "choice" is much broader than that, the kid might want to go and start working, to get some experience, make some money and start producing. And even if the kid wants to go play in the forest, eventually he has to grow up, and he knows that. His parents and social pressure to not be a leech...