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World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything'

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Re: World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything'

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It is "very similar" in the way that buying a meal at mcdonalds is "very similar" to being mugged. In one case you do it voluntarily and the people involved are incentivized to do it efficiently.... and in the other case you do it at gun point and the person involved has no incentive to spend the money efficiently.

i disagree with the premise that the only motivation people have is personal greed. I disagree with the depiction of taxation is a mugging, even libertarians want government when push comes to shove. Afghanistan is what it's like with no real government, and no one is for that. Even libertarians want the government to put a gun to your head to enforce contract law!

I never said the only motivation people have is personal greed.

Taxation is literally a mugging. And you are in error to assume that governments cannot exist without mugging. Businesses provide services and charge for them. A government could do this as well.

don't speak for libertarians if you aren't one. If you are one, you've failed to apply the zero aggression principle.

You also seem to fail to distinguish between using violence defensively against an agressor, which is moral, and using violence offensively to steal from someone (eg: taxation) which is immoral.

Re: World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything'

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This is not a definition, this is an expression of the leftist ideological position. I have seen many situations on Wikipedia where factually correct edits are reversed because they disagree with the ideology of the wikipedia editors who have stature. It is kinda like hacker news where a useful comment like mine is voted down to zero, while someone calling me names and repeating ignorant comments that are consistent…

According to my economics textbooks, when you say "ownership of the entire market" you are talking about a pure monopoly, which is different to a monopoly. You don't need the entire market to have monopolistic power. So, I would disagree with your definitions, and your assertion that "in economics, they use this term correctly". I would also suggest that your assertions seem somewhat ideological. Many people agree th…

I love how you just made up a term and then claimed that using the word wrong is justified because you made up a different term for the correct definiton.

Of course, you've never opened an economic texbook in your life.

I also love how you claim that my references to history are ideological assertions, then you make a broad and profoundly ignorant ideological assertion as a counter argument, except that, of course, you don't make an actual argument, you just say "many people believe".

Many people believe there is a good, that's not proof that its true.

You are a fucking ignorant socialist, and it is consequently no wonder that you are so dishonest as well.

It is fucktards like you that make hacker news (and any "social" news site) not worth participating on,..... because there are just too many ignorant, low intelligence people downvoting those who bothered to learn something and who bother to think.

Just in case there's any question of our relative positions here.

Re: World's Richest Man: 'Charity Doesn't Solve Anything'

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According to my economics textbooks, when you say "ownership of the entire market" you are talking about a pure monopoly, which is different to a monopoly. You don't need the entire market to have monopolistic power. So, I would disagree with your definitions, and your assertion that "in economics, they use this term correctly". I would also suggest that your assertions seem somewhat ideological. Many people agree th…

I love how you just made up a term and then claimed that using the word wrong is justified because you made up a different term for the correct definiton. Of course, you've never opened an economic texbook in your life. I also love how you claim that my references to history are ideological assertions, then you make a broad and profoundly ignorant ideological assertion as a counter argument, except that, of course, y…

I'm afraid you are too kind in attributing the definition of "pure monopoly" to me.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

I'm sorry that you got downvoted. Take it easy.

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i disagree with the premise that the only motivation people have is personal greed. I disagree with the depiction of taxation is a mugging, even libertarians want government when push comes to shove. Afghanistan is what it's like with no real government, and no one is for that. Even libertarians want the government to put a gun to your head to enforce contract law!

I never said the only motivation people have is personal greed. Taxation is literally a mugging. And you are in error to assume that governments cannot exist without mugging. Businesses provide services and charge for them. A government could do this as well. don't speak for libertarians if you aren't one. If you are one, you've failed to apply the zero aggression principle. You also seem to fail to distinguish betwe…

So you believe there should be no government? We have many examples of this throughout modern history. They were all shit holes. Every country on this planet that is a decent place to live has a strong central government. QED
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