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In reply to the discussion: If You Have The Ability to Create Your Own Currency, How Can You Ever Be Broke? [View all]Boetie
(24 posts)If the good is inferior and there is no other choice, then that may represent an opportunity to compete with the company producing the inferior product. If you do not have enough money, then maybe you should earn more, or don't buy it, or do buy it, or find a substitute, or if you can't find a substitute, then consider yourself lucky that you at least can buy the inferior product rather than go without. Your definition of force and mine, with regard to the state and how it carries out taxation and redistribution, are different.
My point is that when there are open markets there is as many variations as the people comprising the market chooses or fits the constraints of the resources available to that market. The openness and the resources available directly impact your ability to choose which to me is the purest form of democracy and self-determination that we can have.
I don't claim to have all the answers, but I absolutely detest the carelessness with which people throw about the ideas of printing money and taxation and re-distribution as if they don't even care that the result is always the threat of violence and/or actual violence upon innocent people that just want to be able to keep what is theirs or to exchange it freely by choice. It is much more challenging and much more congruent with maintaining a free society that we explore the ways that we can interact with each other without resorting to force which is inherent in all that the state does.
This may sound bitter, and so be it if it does, but wouldn't it take more guts to, instead of electing an agent to take property from others, that the person advocating it do it themselves?