The world is socialist
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The world is socialist
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#2I don't think the author understands that state socialism implies coercive sharing, not voluntary resource pooling.
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#3An argument against an ideology's handling of a particular problem is useless unless it quotes and responds to a respectable proponent on that subject. There are plenty of Objectivists and libertarians who have written about the provision of public goods.
Winer should read PG on How To Disagree: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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#4Thought experiment:
How many able-bodied people are there in NYC? Let's say 2 million.
If each of them had shoveled snow for 15 minutes with a snow shovel (working in shifts, let's say, as there are not 2 million snow shovels) just in the area they personally were affected by, how effective would that have been vs. what happened?
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#5The author suggests that Ayn Rand would have had no response to the question of "who cleans up the snow storm?", as if the idea of events affecting the collective simply never occurred to her. What the author claims to be a gap in her philosophy is actually a lack of understanding of it on his part. That she had responses to many common criticisms should be obvious, but a focal point of his argument rests on the false assumption that she did not.
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#6Americans, through blatant ignorance and misuse of the term over the last few years (on both sides of the political aisle), you've ALL forfeited the right to use the world "socialism" until such time as you can prove you actually know what the word means and can use it properly.
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#7Americans, through blatant ignorance and misuse of the term over the last few years (on both sides of the political aisle), you've ALL forfeited the right to use the world "socialism" until such time as you can prove you actually know what the word means and can use it properly.
Sorry, but it's a fair cop. Social services != socialism.
Socialism is the government control of production, and it's largely dead outside of Cuba and North Korea.
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#8This is a content-free political rant, as you'd expect from the title.
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#9I don't think the author understands that state socialism implies coercive sharing, not voluntary resource pooling.
In his defense (despite an apparent lack of understanding of what "socialism" actually means), the author wasn't talking about state socialism, which isn't the only form of socialism.
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#10Thought experiment: How many able-bodied people are there in NYC? Let's say 2 million. If each of them had shoveled snow for 15 minutes with a snow shovel (working in shifts, let's say, as there are not 2 million snow shovels) just in the area they personally were affected by, how effective would that have been vs. what happened?
It sounds good until you ask 'where are they going to put all that snow'? Can't put it on the sidewalks, cars are parked on the sides of the roads. The process of getting rid of that much snow in NYC involves industrial snow melting machines, the sewer system, the rivers, and coordination of trucks. Not so simple as getting together and shovelling out.