On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:01:29 +0000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
OPEC recently invited Russia to join (they've been 'observer' for ages). Putin is holding onto his cards, not in any rush to make oil price fixing decisions right at this particular moment in time.
This all looks like factional wars, rather than 'free' market.
Exactly. And the western side is composed of very big and corrupt business that sometimes quarrel with their eastern (states) partners in crime.
I agree that the state is the primary creator of monopolies even if the state sometimes handles the problem of monopolies.
Example state created monopolies: - copyright - trademarks - patents - licenses - ripping up functional train and tram networks to help boost the car industry
and they 'help' the car mafia even to this day http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/us-autos-gm-treasury-idUSBREA3T0MR... (not that railways companies originally operated in a free-market either...)
Example types of licenses (you can't do this unless you're licensed, only so many licenses are handed out, or the licenses are unduly expensive thereby locking out small players): - manufacturing - operating - usage - service/repair
Exactly.
The question is, what's to stop OPEC like cartels in all industries?
Well, OPEC doesn't even pretend to be a 'private' cartel. OPEC's members are all states/governments.
Perhaps it doesn't matter - if bullies get too strong, the market for assassins would presumably grow, to handle the bullies, and shit, perhaps at some point we might even see humans being nice to each other.
Criminal organizations - the government - can always use violence and extortion to rule. That doesn't change the fact that a free society is a voluntary organization, by definition. That a government is a criminal organization, by defintion. And that historically the government is the prime accomplice of the 'entrepreneurs' they pretend to 'regulate' for the 'common good' From the horse's mouth http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17buffett.html
So what propagandists do is try to scare people whith tales about how dangerous freedom is and how people starve if left alone - who will feed the children bla bla bla - and how their altruistic friends from the state and the 'NGOs' (the state) save everybody, and at no cost!
Isn't the state amazing rysiek? It provides endless benefits and, it is FREE.
https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html
"defending the nation"
Oops. Looks like the retard is both a left-wing AND a RIGHT-wing american fascist...
Thanks to the Greeks and their dang black and white stones, we have quite a long history of "democracy", and so most people might, just might, be a little fearful of the unknown - in this case market freedom.
Might be RMS has never properly researched (or understood) political anarchy - he takes a few days to reply, but he generally answers a polite and direct question.
I have found RMS to be consistently forthright, including when he does not know something - he's so direct that unedumacated folk have often said he is rude, not realising that directness is so far from rude it's not funny.
I wrote to him a couple of weeks ago. Stallman has come to argentina to promote his software projects more than a few times. He's even come to rosario (where i live), and he's been rather friendly towards the worthless sacks of shit known as the 'socialist party' that has been ruling the city for more than 15 years, and among other things raised taxes ~ 2000%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_GiVEVZ4c ^^^^^^ stallman with his socialist friends of the city's government. (there was another video that I cant find now in which he was literally embracing the fucking mayor of rosario) Now the reason why that is relevant and why I wrote to stallman is that his socialist friends have been installing SPY CAMERAS all over the fucking city. Oh, the socialist party also controls the state government and the police. Yep. It's not 'evil corp' doing the surveillance. It's the state that stallman loves so much, and a state controlled by fucking commies like him, to boot. Do you think stallman showed a shred on intellectual honesty and acknowledged that he supports these shitbags because they allegedly use his 'free' software, while turning a blind eye to the fact that they are totalitarians who favor a police state? Of course he didn't. I also remarked to him : "One of your arguments for free software is that users have the right to control their own computers. 'Freedom' means you and your hardware are not being controlled by other people. And yet you are no anarchist. I find that really puzzling. " Here's stallamns, recursive, content-free, hypocritical reply "See stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html for why we need a state. Who should control your computers, and my computers, is a different question." J.
Regards Z