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RE: The Selfish Ledger - A requested response to @cupidzero's post
Love this saying so much, that it has been my steemit moniker since day one. I was recently told by a socialist that capitalism requires force, I had a good laugh about it. Thanks for a good write up on it.
That socialist has a view of capitalism that really is corporatism, not capitalism.
Capitalism is an economic system. It is not a government. It has not law enforcement branch, it has no rules other than supply, demand, and voluntary exchange.
To make anything involuntary is typically the introduction of a government, a rule maker, etc. That is not a free market.
So because Capitalism has been so muddied down and people usually have their own interpretation I usually stick to the free market and make it very clear that as soon as any rules are applied to it that it truly is no longer free. The only rules that should matter are the voluntary contracts between individuals.
Yeah, that was all mentioned and known to him. Yet still dismissed. Some people are just too dense to get it.