For example, government making sure that nobody owns the internet and drives traffic to one site over another = evil regulation. Some company like AT&T sending traffic to the highest bidder = free market with eagles and freedoms and happy patriot consumers forever.
Holy shit. I'm a dirty fucking socialist. But I can still listen to reasonable argument about free markets. I don't agree with it but I can hear it out and even respect the person or group for having those beliefs. This however...I don't even know how to make an argument against this because his argument is so flawed from the start.
He's not making shit up. It's just what he's saying has no basis or relevance to reality.
I didn't think to add it until I read your comment. For some reason the phrase "Even the poorest among us today live better than the kings and queens and the so-called robber barons of just a century ago" illustrated your critique so perfectly, that I thought I should include it as a tag.
It's a lot easier to say that the government is holding you back when you completely forget that the internet and all early computers were government projects.
I'd like to think there may have been a brief time where we just fed them to the wild animals before we started making them into shamans, priests and politicians.
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