On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:19:21 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: John Newman <j...@synfin.org> > > > >"Anarcho-capitalism" has more in common with fascism and > >post-industrial feudalism than any real ideal of freedom and life > >without coercion. For a fair idea of how it might play out, just > >look back 150 years to the gilded age - the government was a fuck of > >a lot smaller, the masses were dirt fucking poor, and they were kept > >that way by private squads of pinkertoon goons hired by the bosses. > >This is>"anarcho-capitalism" > It is dangerous and misleading to compare that era with today. The > Interstate Highway System didn't begin until the early 1950's. right the nazi american gov't hadn't created it yet. > Except in cities, America didn't have what we would recognize as > "roads" until the 1920's. oh - you never heard about this thing called RAIL-ROADS? lol.... > In 1900, half of the population lived on > farms. Most people didn't have telephones until the 1920's. The > idea that the large majority of goods would travel at least 1000 > miles to the consumer was preposterous. Did people live "well" by > today's standards? Certainly not. Was most of the deficiency due to > oppression by the evil capitalists? Not at all. It is virtually > impossible to conceive of a modern, national economy without roads, > trucks, airplanes, etc. So, when you say, "the masses were dirt > fucking poor", by today's standards that was true. But not by some > conspiracy. Jim Bell > >