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[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess if you think about it that way then everything is luck and we live in a deterministic world where none of your choices matter. That still wouldn’t support the argument in the OP meme though.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

On the false preposition that an air duct is hiding Hamas.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Capital is more like stored labour. The first ever capital was just a starp stick or spear. Someone spent labour and it resulted in a more productive way to hunt animals. This almost immediately would’ve resulted in inequality as the spear hunter caught more game. It’s not that the capital was taking anything from the labourer, it’s actually that capital and labour work really well together and humans are more productive with capital.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You’re also taking a snapshot of the most regulated industry in the US. Building high rises is illegal in huge swaths of urban areas. Before we say the free market isn’t providing an answer cab we actually try it? I’m talking removing exclusionary zoning, speeding up the permit process and reducing the power of local action committees, and reforming the broken heritage process that’s used by rich people to keep their areas from densifying.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because the rich get richer doesn’t mean the poor get poorer. Look at the data.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing about capitalism prevents you from doing this. I just looked online and there are multiple apps that let you do this. It’s just a hammer is a relatively inconsequential purchase and fairly cheap. It might take $5 in gas and $20 in lost wages just to save the materials in a $10 tool. Not too mention the administration required to maintain this system. Car sharing though and parking share have become popular though.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What do you think he’s saying here?

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You didn’t read the article you linked. In it Walter Block states that slavery violates the non-aggression-principle and is not permissible under libertarianism.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is not at all a debate in libertarianism. Libertarians recognize the role of a limited small government to protect individual rights. Like please pull up one example of this debate going on in a libertarian space.

Libertarians don’t believe murder should be legal and crazy shit like that. Libertarians believe in a guaranteed freedoms like freedom of speech, economic liberalism and are often social progressives who believe in gay marriage and drug legalization.

The bill of rights was brought to you by libertarians.

[–] huge_clock@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

The mass shootings are the symptom of a larger mental health problem. Here in Canada where we have much more gun control we recently memorialized one of our most deadly attacks, The Toronto van attack which killed 11 and wounded 15 (some critically). How is gun control going to help the fact that some people out there want to kill as many lives as possible?

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