From: wernerhetzner@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 8:35:14 PM UTC-4, Annona Muricata wrote:   
   > > minimum-wage-now-officially-disaster   
   >    
   > YAWN!   
   > Why don't you actually tell the readers of this recurrent capitalist lie-   
   > bertarian social Darwinist crap complaint what you really think?   
   >    
   >....   
      
      
   What I think is not relevant. What that story does is illustrate the   
   consequences of a particular law.  Do you disagree with the article? Are the   
   stated consequences untrue?    
      
   >    
   > *Libertarians*   
   >    
   > Why do libertarians oppose consumer protection laws?   
   >     Because the market will automatically force manufacturers to make   
   >       safe, good products without the need for any regulations   
   >    
   > — Cover reason.   
   >     Because consumers can voluntarily avoid bad or unsafe products on   
   >        their own without any consumer-protection laws being needed   
   >        — Cover reason   
   >    
   > >Real Reason: Because the fundamental rule in the catechism of the    
   > libertarian’s political religion is that people should be free to do    
   > whatever they want to do without there being any rules. The truth is that    
   > libertarians want everyone to live in a world without rules because they    
   > hate rules.   
   > You know you don’t really think that bad and unsafe products and abusive    
   > terms of sale will all disappear on their own. You don’t really believe    
   > that in a practical sense almost all consumers almost all of the time    
   > will be able to protect themselves from bad products and abusive terms.   
   >    
   > You know that without rules consumers will be badly hurt, but you think    
   > that you’re smart enough to avoid the bad stuff and that anybody who   
   isn’t    
   > as smart and as careful as you are deserves what they get, that whatever    
   > scam befalls them is their own damn fault for being that stupid and their    
   > being screwed over by bad products is a small price to pay so that you    
   > can live in a world without rules.   
   >    
   > Just admit it."    
      
      
   We, the people, are continually told goverment is needed to correct free   
   market failures and to serve a mythical Common Good. Yet, legislated failures   
   are tragically common ( start here ). For example, too often public schools   
   are tragically bad.   
   https://www.endit.info/TheCommons.shtml   
      
   Let me know if you need more examples of government failures, comrade.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)