Goofle

The point is that I believe in the free market more than government control.

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Janszoon

Even to the point of point of selling $100 bottles of water to desperate hurricane survivors apparently. Awesome.

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Goofle

Why shouldn't somebody be punished for stealing from you? You can enforce laws without oppression necessarily following.

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Goofle

Why would a bottle of water cost $100 under a free market system? Who controls water?

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Isbjørn

Arbitrary principles > practice in the material world. Got it.

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OccultHawk

I want it on the record that I'm not the only one completely bat**** crazy around here.

Janszoon

Demand. And the people selling the water control the water. Do you not understand what price gouging is?

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

OccultHawk

The dude with an AK and bottled water. It's also called South Sudan.

Isbjørn

Agree 100%. That's why capitalism needs the military, the courts, prisons, the police, i.e. the state, to uphold itself. Capitalism wouldn't survive for a day without an organized institution of armed force. That's one of the reasons for why the state (under capitalism) is not a socialist institution, but rather a public institution that upholds and strengthens capitalism.

The era of "free market" capitalism ended in the 1800s, pal. Free competition is abolished more and more as monopolies grow and obtain control over enire branches of industry and exercise their control over public life. That's capitalism at work for ya.

Idk. Nestlé?

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rostasi

Remember Jans, he's a fan of Shkreli.
Also, as has been said here: there is no such thing as "free market" - especially these days.