Comment by nutjob2
2 months ago
The gun was an analogy and the comment satire, but the thuggery is real and the weapon is money.
For markets to exist they indeed need to be regulated and when they aren't you get something other than a market, you get thuggery.
But this is my point. People say "unregulated market" and assume that means reverting to feudalism, but what it actually means is just... less regulation.
You should try speaking to the Libertarian bros.
The libertarians get a lot of things wrong, but generally they would agree that it's not a real market if people are getting coerced.
I'm not convinced that the system they want to build would actually protect people, though.