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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
there is a huge difference. for example, i don't need to join a paysite to manage my finances online but i do need an internet connection to do that. there are many public services offered online, should the people who need these services be marginalized because of this?
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So you have a right to manage your finances online? you have a right to access the internet? Just because certain services are offered online, it doesn't mean people have a right to get online. Some products are sold in a store, should everyone have free transportation to get to that store so they can by the products that are being sold there? Should everyone get free transportation to get to the bank so they can manage their finances?
There's no such thing as a "need to manage your finances online". Most people will think it is easy and convenient to manage their finances online, but that doesn't give them the right to do so.
If you want to manage your finances online, you need a computer, an internet connection that allows you to access your bank's website and a bank account at a bank that allows you to manage your finances online.
What about people who don't own a computer or can't afford a computer? Should the State buy them a computer so they can manage their finances online?
What about retail stores that don't have a website or web shop, should the State force them to make their products available online, so people can buy them online because it's more convenient?
These days people think they have a right to get this or that or do this or that, just because they think it's is convenient or easy. You have a right to your body and your property. You have the right to use your property. You can sell it, use it, buy property, trade property. But you don't have a right to violate other people's property rights.
Once you start inventing new 'rights' like the right to manage your finances online, you reduce the concept of 'rights' to something that can be invented, assigned and taken away. Once you start inventing 'rights' like the right to access the internet, the right to manage your finances online, the right to this or that product, it means someone must provide you with those things... after all, those are your rights... things you are entitled to....
And once you go down that road.... well, ask FA Hayek where it ends
