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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Isn't it imperative that we all read as much as we can in order to advance the condition?
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I don't understand the question.
Recently I have been reading books about North Korea. Does that count?
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Perhaps it is the idea of selling that is wrong.
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That is the normal justification given for
a currency reform. People have been selling stuff and making money, and we have to put a stop to it.
If there is any lesson of history, it's that when you eliminate competing centers of power, that leaves us with the government having absolute power, which it will soon use. Now, just like the government, competing centers of power can get too strong. That's one reason why we have anti-trust. If the Justice Department anti-trust division was to be transformed into an anti-selling division, we would have North Korea.
If this thread teaches us anything, it should be that free people, in concert, will no more accept copyright enforced by strong criminal sanctions than they will accept abolition of copyright. Freedom requires some messiness.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It is quite obvious that this system allows for one to gain much while at the same time causing others to lose just as much...
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You really need to read some basic economic textbooks more carefully. There is overwhelming evidence for this, on average, being mistaken.