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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:41AM (#39537098)
In democracy you can also abstain. In the market for food, shelter and clothing it's not possible without serious harm to your health.

Also vote costs you nothing and oa the same for all people and your voting power in the market is directly proportional to how much money you can spend.

It's not similar. At all.

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by lobocinza on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @01:21PM (#39541775)
> In democracy you can also abstain.

Not really. You can abstain from voting but not from paying taxes. And if you abstain from voting you will still will be subject to the authority of whoever get's elected and it will probably not be in favor.

> In the market for food, shelter and clothing it's not possible without serious harm to your health.

You can grown, build and craft your own. It's not always practical but you have those options. e.g. I cook my own food and grow produce in the backyard. And we all have way more and better options for food, shelter or clothing than we have for president, governor or mayor.

> Also vote costs you nothing and oa the same for all people and your voting power in the market is directly proportional to how much money you can spend.

I don't know in which world do you live but that just ain't true. Elections are super expensive. In Brazil public funding for political parties is a 10-digits figure. Money win elections. Rich rent-seekers "donate" massive amounts to candidates legally and illegally to later receive favors.

> It's not similar. At all.

Free market is the purest form of democracy. Representative democracy is garbage.

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @08:00AM (#39548713)
So why not organize our system of governance as one dollar = one vote if you believe that deep inequality is the purest democracy?

Would you be in favor of that?

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by lobocinza on Thursday February 29, 2024 @09:57AM (#39550137)
Of course not. I identify cronyism as an inherent characteristic of representative democracies but I don't advocate for it. I follow the non-aggression principle so no matter how rich or how poor nobody should have rights over others or their property. I'm in favor of going towards anarcho-capitalism and stateless societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:26PM (#39555340)
But why not? If letting people with money decide is the purest form of democracy as you wrote?

Aren't you in favor of purest form of democracy?

I understand that you are a fan of anarchism but given that it's impossible shouldn't you be in favor of the next best thing?

Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by lobocinza on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:15PM (#39556975)
There's no point in talking further you're either super dumb, malicious or both.
Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:29AM (#39559779)
I'm neither, but you first call voting with wallet the purest form of democracy, but if democracy actually worked like that you call it cronyism. That's really curious.