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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by efuquen on Saturday October 13, 2012 @11:52PM (#4650569)
"On a side note, robber barons are largely a myth."

What exactly is mythological about robber barons? The term is widely used and I've never heard anyone question their existence.

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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by MordinSolus on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:19AM (#4650631)
Perhaps this, and the related book, will explain it better: http://www.fee.org/nff/the-myth-of-the-robber-barons/
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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by aaronbrethorst on Sunday October 14, 2012 @02:25AM (#4650845)
You say you don't read Mises, but then you peddle literature from an organization that exists explicitly to spread his (and a handful of others') ideology.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650573

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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by MordinSolus on Sunday October 14, 2012 @04:36AM (#4651022)
Whoops, I forgot that Mises is the only source of knowledge about economics. Silly me.

If you don't like my reading suggestions, then perhaps try a Milton Friedman youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzZ8lCLhlk

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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by eli_gottlieb on Sunday October 14, 2012 @11:16AM (#4651583)
Great, so you don't do Mises, but you do Mises' academic son, Friedman. Same stuff, different packaging.
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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by MordinSolus on Sunday October 14, 2012 @03:38PM (#4652361)
Actually they have pretty different approaches to economics, yet they end up with similar conclusions (except for differences regarding the control of the supply).

And you say that like it's a bad thing, when in reality we could use a healthy dose of economic conservatism right now.

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Re:The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent by eli_gottlieb on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:39AM (#4654249)
And you say that like it's a bad thing, when in reality we could use a healthy dose of economic conservatism right now.

Ah, I do love you right-wingers. At the very moment we're overdosing on your ideology, you insist that it has never been tried and is needed more than ever!

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