Comment by 🚀 stack

@manucom: thank you for the link I will take a look.

I think you are arguing this incorrectly. I am sorry if I stepped on a sore toe.

• I do not need to talk to an insurance salesman to have an opinion about insurance companies.

• Where does it say I am making assumptions of anyone's ignorance? I am meerly stating my opinion.

• Knowing you are feeding an evil machine in order to maybe improve someone else's life (or your own) at the expense of others -- is perhaps worse than doing so as an ignoramus.

I know many people who do good without involving authorities.

And I know many others who think they are doing good with serious blinders on.

I am often accused of not seeing the big picture, but I think it's the opposite.

Sep 23 · 3 months ago

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re: Stop pretending to be anti-violence — [gemini link] I agree with so many things, except one -- markets. Yes, government equals violence, in every 'solution' it offers. Yes, enforcement, especially selective enforcement of contracts is violence. And capitalism, especially in advances stages, is total violence -- like most --isms (government preferences) it is and -ism that gives preference to the rich. Free Market is not Capitalism It is the opposite of capitalism. Let me elaborate, because...