Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead

Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by kevviiinn on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:37PM (#35277376)

Do you think markets can exist without regulations? I think you're failing to acknowledge that without regulation, it's far easier for violent monopolies to control everything

Do you honestly think that without government saying that corporations can't do violence that they would all get along in happy lovey dovey fairy tale land? No, they would absolutely have their own standing armies. We need regulation to even have markets otherwise we go back to feudalism

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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by phpisthebest on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:04PM (#35277803)

I am not ready to go full AnCap... but I believe Governments role in society is as a Night Watchman, to prevent violence, fraud, and physical abuse (i.e murder, property theft etc)

I would even go as far as expanding the Lockean proviso to its natural conclusion in the establishment of a Single Tax system around natural resources / property i.e Geolibertianism

In short I believe government should be about 1/10 or even 1/20th of the size we have today. Total government expenditure in the US (State Local and Federal) should be no more than 15-18% of GDP, today federal alone is over 25 approaching 30%

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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by kevviiinn on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:33PM (#35280949)

The problem is that corporations will take every single advantage that isn't explicitly denied to them at the cost of consumers and citizens in general, that's why we have and need regulations to protect the environment and make sure that corporations don't completely destroy ecosystems for profit. But we can see that they do anyways, they just go to countries without the regulations and destroy the environment there

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