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RE: 156 Nations have suffered Genocide since 1945
Was Nazi Germany a free market society? Are nations with dictators capitalist/free market societies?
There is plenty of evidence that communist regimes kill.
https://www.schwarzreport.org/resources/essays/why-communism-kills
Not even to mention the massive advances in life expectancy medicine quality of life that wouldn't have happened until a socialist or communist society.
Greed is good.
Also in a free market world it's not someone else's fault that a countries people are happy to live under a dictator. It's up to them to figure out how to fix it and become civilized if they want a better existence. It is not a mystery why democratic countries are better off and millions don't die from a lack of clean water. And if blood has to be shed to get to democracy and no corruption then that's a price worth paying imo.
Eliminate force from the equation and folks can do what they want, imo.
Crowds are morons.
Better to let them be people and don't split them into crowds.
How many medical advances are squashed because they cant get patents?
Greed is for a**holes.
I'm going to read that over the next week or 2, thanks for the link :)
I agree that advances are slowed down by patent trolls or genuine patents, but with hard work being rewarded there would be fewer significant advances to mass markets imo.
Even in a simple example I want apples but don't want to pay for them. You planted 10 trees 10 years ago and spend 1 working week per year tending to the trees, killing the weeds, watering it during a drought, protecting it from horses and crows, picking the apples, storing the apples and so on. Why should you give me apples for free when you can sell them and buy something other than apples instead?
That analogy is true for physical and mental labour. There can be some support for the worst off people in society, but the world works by specialisation, you trade smart decisions, time and labour in things you are good at for the same from someone else. Some IP should be protected at least for some length of time.
Many of the most successful people in society by hard work, luck, IQ etc donate huge amounts of their wealth to the worst off voluntarily. The world could be much worse off if smart/lucky/hard working people don't get rewarded for this and therefore couldn't maximise the good they voluntarily choose to do.
You can read this in a few hours.
https://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php
How does that strike you?
Better, or worse, than the status quo?