Message from @jacovich stabs

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2019-09-12 12:28:14 UTC  

Not an absolutely free market, no.

2019-09-12 12:28:16 UTC  

Instead of having unions or the like have organizations tasked with a particular activity that could be created or dissolved by local government, other producers or anyone else who can DIRECTLY benefit from the workings of the organizations.

2019-09-12 12:29:07 UTC  

To have a free market, you require the ability to engage in commerce, within a particular markets, absent the intervention of a third party.

2019-09-12 12:29:27 UTC  

Then the one who creates the organizations can also create the conditions where 2 or more groups will be competing against each other to devise the best structure and rules for it possible.

2019-09-12 12:29:33 UTC  

You realize how much legal innovation you'd have to do to reach sustainable free markets? We never got to that point before we gave up and started regulating everyone because it was the easy solution.

2019-09-12 12:29:43 UTC  

We don't get rid of competition, just build it in!

2019-09-12 12:30:00 UTC  

by that standard a free market can't exist within a sovereign polity

2019-09-12 12:30:10 UTC  

He gets it.

2019-09-12 12:30:21 UTC  

A true free market needs to be stateless.

2019-09-12 12:30:39 UTC  

Just as unobtainable as "communism".

2019-09-12 12:30:45 UTC  

@Jeremy Why do you think a market is the only, and therefore the best solution?

2019-09-12 12:31:08 UTC  

Just what, exactly, do you believe a market is?

2019-09-12 12:31:12 UTC  

No a true free market requires a state to extract force from the realm of trade

2019-09-12 12:31:14 UTC  

it seems like a weird concept

2019-09-12 12:32:08 UTC  

An INSTITUTION, not a place or a building, where people can trade one kind of goods or services for another.

2019-09-12 12:32:14 UTC  

That's quite the opposite of what a free market is, Jaco.

2019-09-12 12:32:25 UTC  

Does the definition satisfy you @Jeremy ?

2019-09-12 12:32:42 UTC  

And the funny thing is

2019-09-12 12:32:47 UTC  

No, because an institution isn't required to conduct trade.

2019-09-12 12:32:54 UTC  

you can't have institutions without a governemnt

2019-09-12 12:32:55 UTC  

So you think a free market is where the government uses force to dictate how everyone trades? Because THAT is the opposite of a free market

2019-09-12 12:33:13 UTC  

Well, an institution **is** required

2019-09-12 12:33:17 UTC  

Some form of one

2019-09-12 12:33:30 UTC  

wouldn't a true free market by this definition require that everyone be an independent producer

2019-09-12 12:33:30 UTC  

cause without a government you don't have laws and without laws nothing can guarantee the continuous existence of institutions.

2019-09-12 12:34:13 UTC  

No, that's what you seem to be illustrating here, when it is quite the opposite, given a market is only *absolutely* free when there is unrestricted competition among businesses, which inherently requires a lack of entry-barriers.

2019-09-12 12:34:42 UTC  

Without a government you have no one who can prevent theft and if you have theft you can't have a free market.

2019-09-12 12:34:43 UTC  

Freedom within a market lives on a scale.

2019-09-12 12:35:17 UTC  

Are you an anarchist @Jeremy ?

2019-09-12 12:35:36 UTC  

Without a government there are no laws.

2019-09-12 12:35:59 UTC  

Without laws there is no guarantee the guy next door won't just steal stuff.

2019-09-12 12:36:10 UTC  

I wouldn't consider myself an anarchist, but I'd consider myself a Minarchist.

2019-09-12 12:36:14 UTC  

If he steals stuff, you have no market at all.

2019-09-12 12:36:27 UTC  

yeah this guy understands

2019-09-12 12:36:28 UTC  

Anarchists believe in the utopia of stateless societies.

2019-09-12 12:36:58 UTC  

Correct, Yord.

2019-09-12 12:37:03 UTC  

Then, why do you think markets alone can redistribute?

2019-09-12 12:37:10 UTC  

there is only one thing that richard spencer has ever said that i agree with and it is that the state is an existential entity

2019-09-12 12:38:16 UTC  

I believe you've a Leninist view of what a market is; whereas, I view it as a byproduct of spontaneous order.

2019-09-12 12:38:17 UTC  

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do

2019-09-12 12:38:32 UTC  

Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too