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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
And every middle class and poor persona is as pure as the driven snow. They only think of others, and never try to "game the system" to their benefit.
Just remember, if someone becomes successful, they are now evil.
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i sure don't think that. and i'm a libertarian.
the definition of libertarianism that i adhere to is that government's function is to protect the people from Force and Fraud.
Successful people aren't inherently evil, but a taste of big money makes a lot of people totally amoral. for fuck's sake, we've seen that in the porn biz a zillion times. what makes you think it would be any different in the government biz, where the dollars are infinitely higher?
And that's why you need regulation. Look at the deregulation of the S&L's (in the '80s, where owners of S&L's turned their 'banks' into their personal piggy banks) and the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which sewed the seeds of the financial crisis that we're still dealing with.
Ivory Tower libertarians forget one core thing. HUMAN NATURE.