tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post328477136388257421..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Maximum Freedom, Maximum ResponsibilityCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-9856260688621953092015-06-20T08:57:52.767-07:002015-06-20T08:57:52.767-07:00Rev. Malthus has not left the scene, he is merely ...Rev. Malthus has not left the scene, he is merely taking a smoking break. When he reenters the room, the problem of vast numbers of useless stupids will be solved in fairly short order.....pyrrhushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150605108788285274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-4509658011270723862015-06-19T00:13:49.884-07:002015-06-19T00:13:49.884-07:00I agree with the diagnosis but I don´t think the f...I agree with the diagnosis but I don´t think the future will be so dark (or not for long). As I see it, added to what you described, more and more people will start avoiding taxation: why pay it if the money goes to hell anyway? I have a better use for it. If you bring in stupid rules people will start going around them. This, added to what you wrote will create a lack of resources for the system and the system will eventually fall because be design, it never creates wealth (1. they don´t know how to do it and 2. the really do believe there is enough wealth, ONLY it is badly distributed). And quite soon there won´t be enough money to feed the masses and the masses will go against the system. And since the system has no solution for this, they´ll just let go. The question is how long it will take.It took 40 years to the european commies to run the countries to a point where they didn´t know what to do anymore. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-79959538260550624222015-06-18T15:30:40.622-07:002015-06-18T15:30:40.622-07:00"However, while the consequences of letting p..."However, while the consequences of letting people have unlimited freedom may mean the ultimate demise of the world's greatest society, it is not in letting people have freedom that is the problem. It is in shielding them from the full costs of their mistakes. It is preventing them from taking 100% responsibility for their actions where the problem lies."<br /><br />Well said, Captain! This gets at the heart of the whole matter. Roosh seems to be thinking of freedom from responsibility, which is an interesting way to think of what it means to be free, because ultimately this sort of "freedom" requires enslaving others. Roosh sees people, particularly women, run amok because they are able to behave however they wish without fear of consequences, but we have to keep in mind that this "freedom" they exercise comes only at the expense of others whose actual rights are violated in order to subsidize their life choices. Without this subsidy, the cost of their mistakes would reined in such behavior early on.<br /><br />Authority and responsibility go hand in hand and must be equal. Whenever this balance is upset, there are consequences and they are easy to observe in our country. What we have is a political caste system of sorts in which some have authority and no responsibility, while others have not only responsibility for their own actions but for that of others. <br /><br />As Ron Paul put it so concisely, when you subsidize something, you get more of it. America isn't the land of the free anymore. It's the land of the subsidized.<br /><br />The best way to avoid becoming a member of the enslaved class is to pursue a life of minimalism. A thief cannot steal something you do not have.<br /><br />The question is - how long can this transfer of responsibility go on? We can delay paying the Piper for a while, but he's going to get paid one way or another.The Questionhttp://anarchistnotebook.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-45205245569204095032015-06-18T13:29:05.226-07:002015-06-18T13:29:05.226-07:00nailed it again, the Andy Rooney rule, if stupid p...nailed it again, the Andy Rooney rule, if stupid people F**K they make more stupid people1432fpcheronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-69258211230645959532015-06-18T11:23:58.981-07:002015-06-18T11:23:58.981-07:00In IT we refer to users thusly: "Being stupid...In IT we refer to users thusly: "Being stupid has to hurt. If it doesn't hurt, people won't stop being stupid."<br /><br />People stopped misplacing their access keyfobs and laptop AC adapters once we started charging them $100 each to replace them. Not coincidentally, the office was more productive, as there was less time wasted scrabbling up replacements and having people sitting idle.daniel_reamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02403549053471947069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-6403017759381544332015-06-18T11:05:29.689-07:002015-06-18T11:05:29.689-07:00Yup. Freedom should come with responsibility. If p...Yup. Freedom should come with responsibility. If people never know they are making mistakes they will never change their ways. Also I find it unfair to "bail out" people who basically brought everything on themselves because they live without any planning or interest in the world.<br /><br />I don't believe in putting barriers down, it can be easily abused by the wrong people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-72678606597571465292015-06-18T10:42:50.302-07:002015-06-18T10:42:50.302-07:00Another hard hitting post!
The problem is with al...Another hard hitting post!<br /><br />The problem is with all this crappy 'democracy' plenty of allegedly 'smart' people have allowed the stupid to perpetuate under the belief that if they are given enough free stuff poverty would disappear; instead we have the same percentage of people in poverty since these programs were begun in the 60's. Education levels are worse despite the money spent.<br /><br />I've told these do-gooders that no amount of free stuff is going to change these people's stupid decisions or processes that got them their. Granted, there are some genuinely poor people through a work injury or other circumstances, but I suspect those are the minority.sth_txsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-33457397827865761392015-06-18T09:52:03.714-07:002015-06-18T09:52:03.714-07:00Idiocracy, everything you ever needed to know abou...Idiocracy, everything you ever needed to know about Democracy... ever....Marshallawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-90218140141064540432015-06-18T09:46:16.550-07:002015-06-18T09:46:16.550-07:00If democracy enables stupid people and also requir...If democracy enables stupid people and also requires that we bail them out, that's a good argument for replacing democracy with something better, as some on the NRx argue.grey enlightenmenthttp://greyenlightenment.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-69218710382255682672015-06-18T08:16:54.262-07:002015-06-18T08:16:54.262-07:00An unavoidable economic law: what is subsidized te...An unavoidable economic law: what is subsidized tends to increase, what is taxed tends to decrease. The West now taxes success and subsidizes failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-15975783964075629932015-06-18T07:59:25.518-07:002015-06-18T07:59:25.518-07:00This probably does not include Roosh, but much of ...This probably does not include Roosh, but much of the argument for limiting people's liberty is not just because people make poor choices that result in bad outcomes. Such arguments are often used to limit the liberty of those who actually make good productive choices for ideological reasons as well as rent-seeking parasitism.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-67068356991616182962015-06-18T07:59:24.929-07:002015-06-18T07:59:24.929-07:00This probably does not include Roosh, but much of ...This probably does not include Roosh, but much of the argument for limiting people's liberty is not just because people make poor choices that result in bad outcomes. Such arguments are often used to limit the liberty of those who actually make good productive choices for ideological reasons as well as rent-seeking parasitism.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.com