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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by hoggle on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @12:57PM (#7628811)
When I visited San Francisco some years ago I was appalled by the many comments on all the people living on the streets as being "homeless by choice". It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

As a privileged individual (middle class, white, male, above average IQ) I've always found the liberal point of view naturally alluring but ultimately it seems to be dishonest and unethical no matter how many ideological writings on anarcho-capitalist theory I keep reading. So again, while I like the ideas of extreme freedom (voluntaryism, etc) in the end it seems like it's just extreme ideology disconnected from reality and actually resulting in less freedom.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Liberty

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by pradocchia on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @04:52PM (#7630365)
It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Can you elaborate on the first part? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by hoggle on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:34PM (#7630620)
Sorry, the sentence really is a bit off.

The point I was trying to make was essentially that it seems logical to me that a higher crime rate can be connected to substantial inequalities in terms of opportunities / wealth.

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by pradocchia on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:11PM (#7631289)
Having to switch to the other side of the street or having to circumvent a dangerous block is a loss of freedom, a kind of coercion born of inequality, normalized by the very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Yes, I think so too.

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