Before You Criticize the Free Market You Should Try It

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Criticism requires critical thinking which seems decidedly rare these days. The Occupy Wall Street crowd certainly doesn't seem to engage in any. The real question in my mind is how do they envision economic systems?

There are either free systems or controlled systems. Obviously mixed systems fall in between. A certain amount of labor is required to obtain any good whatsoever. You will not exchange that good which was created for less than its value to you which has to be at least the effort that you expended to obtain it. So unless you get something you value at the same level or more you will not voluntarily exchange the good. That's called freedom.

If someone comes and insists that you exchange it for less on pain of punishment then you may, but then you won't create anymore. If they force you to create more and exchange them for less, that is called slavery or tyranny. There is no way to get more than you deserve freely so if you have more and you have not exercised force then you deserve what you have. It is yours. You created it.

All this nonsense implying that if someone has something you want, then you have some sort of right to it because you desire it is a manifestation of greed and envy. Both have usually been seen as sins. Envy is wanting something because someone else has it. Greed is usually wanting more than you deserve, but you can't freely get more than you deserve without using force and that's stealing. The government is the one deploying the most force so they are to the extent they use force in unjustified ways, stealing and enslaving in however small a proportion. Since they then use some of the proceeds to pretend to be helping people they are buying accessories. This whole thing is quite marginal from a moral point of view. It is all clouded over with rhetoric. The problem is that the system is not as free as it should be. The result is a great deal of posturing by everyone who thinks they can benefit by manipulating the force of the government.

Meanwhile, how much of all this is a scam? SEE HERE