GrumpyGardener on Nostr: This argument is old and stale. Capitalism has it's faults but there is no ...

This argument is old and stale. Capitalism has it's faults but there is no alternative that has yielded better results.

You can attack capitalism and the "anarcho-capitalisy types", but what you can't do is come up with a viable alternative with a track record of success.

Your ideas are not new. They are Marxist and Marxism has always created the absolute most corrupt governments in the world with a 2 class system. Indeed, a 2 class system is the heart of Marxism and it always ends with impoverished masses.

If you don't like rothbard, the try skousen. He's written two books that are relevant to this conversation. The Naked Communist, and the Naked Capitalist.

Socialists love monopolies because they can lift up champions under the guide of capitalism and continue to espouse more government as the solution. It's always the state that created the unfair advantage in the industry, and then seeks to regulate. Ayn Rand is another author that speaks on this extensively.

The state is always the enemy of the people. they have a monopoly on force. It's their only tool and the state will always choose a controllable champion to prop up in order to control an industry.

Many of them things you are saying are true. But only partially so because you can see the puppet, but fail to see the strings.

There is no liberty without economic freedom. Economic Freedom, or the freedom to transact at will, is your natural state. The state can not give you that, but they can certainly take it away and replace it with an illusion. That illusion, still traps your mind.