On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:30:07 -0700 Razer <Rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
On 10/08/2015 09:20 AM, rysiek wrote:
But wait, if we *do* get a truly decentralized market with no middlemen, where individuals do not have to cooperate with would-be middlemen, are you saying that individuals would not at all co-operate with each other in order to *become* middlement and shaft everybody else?
Show me the advantage over cooperating with others equilaterally.
There's no inherent problem with middlemen. If they are not actually useful, then people won't hire them. And if their usefulness is debatable, then people who don't like middlemen don't have to hire them anyway. It's quite funny how statists whine about 'monopolies' in the free-market while trying to hide the fact that they are advocates of the only actual monopoly that matters : the state. Which, go figure, is the ARMED MONOPOLY that grants PRIVILEGES to its friends allowing them to get rid of the competition and abuse consumers...thus creating 'economic' monopolies. 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... J.