I say they are all nonsense. I also don't trust people I've never met to make decisions for people they've never met. That aside, it's wrong to tell someone what they can and can't bring to market, and what someone can and can't be allowed to buy.
The Bitcoin product is garbage, just like in a pyramid scheme. People buy in to Bitcoin so they can profit from the people who buy in later and not because there's a valuable product to invest in, just like a pyramid scheme. If Bitcoin was useful in commerce, it wouldn't be useless as it is now.
If someone earns a ton of money via voluntary trade (making someone else's life better), it's immoral for them to keep what they earned, but it's fine to use a gun to take it away to give to someone else? That's horrible
Even the article is an example of people using private money to help people make ends meet, so why default to stealing@
It's really sad what citizens got when marijuana got legalized. Just more laws telling you how you're allowed to live your life, and drug taxes finding schools.
Ideally a business should be able to sell whatever it wants to whomever it wants. I'd argue that some US states that have legalized it are worse off than when it was illegal. The regulation and taxation is ridiculous, and when it's legalized, it's much less likely to be taken off the books entirely. It's sad to call all the rules and regulations around growing, distributing, and consuming a plant a 'win'.
Same here. People need to pick up a basic Economics book. The government is not here to protect people, it's here to give people of influence special privileges.
People should be able to take risks, it's what life is all about. People should also be able to develop their own private institutions to handle that risk. The government is impossible to complete with. If people are unhappy about being scammed in the market, that should be an opportunity for an entrepreneur to come in an help people not get scammed. The government prevents this
Regardless of the outcome, gaining that outcome through legislation (force) is immoral. It's sad that these days the default for a group to get what they want is to use a third party with guns.
I believe the government is immoral, and people and businesses should be free to create and trade unregulated. Even if I thought net neutrality was 'good' for consumers and business and the economy, I wouldn't trust the government to pen it's legislation
So what if it's fast and easy? Plastic bags are incredibly efficient. They're popular for a reason. If you want to keep people impoverished, this is how you do it
I think it would be nice to not have the government involved in my food decisions in any way. I'm going to let people I've never met tell me what I should eat instead of looking at people I share genetics with? I'm also not going to listen to people who subsidize food producers as if they're impartial