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    Quote Originally Posted by squark View Post
    I like a quote from this short book The Coming Aristocracy
    I'm reading this whole book and now it's discussing libertarianism and the Foundation for Financial Education. It's always such a paradox that free markets and socialism both end up sounding wonderful when defined by their advocates, yet I don't think anyone seriously identifies as a free market socialist. "Free markets" are always "the ability to buy and sell without coercion" and "socialism" is always "the workers own the means of production." People owning their means of production, setting the prices they'd like to sell at, and choosing the prices they'd like to buy at without outside parties interfering seems like a trivial position to me, yet no one seems to take it seriously.

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    are people in USA and other capitalistic states equal? it's not evidently
    was there else sometimes? no
    will there be? dobtfully

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sol View Post
    are people in USA and other capitalistic states equal? it's not evidently
    was there else sometimes? no
    will there be? dobtfully

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