09-24-2018, 09:15 AM
(09-24-2018, 03:58 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-22-2018, 02:59 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-22-2018, 02:59 AM)Galen Wrote: You are forgetting that Eric the Obtuse has a knowledge of science equal to that of the seventeenth century when Astrology was state of the art. That and he still thinks socialism can work which indicates his contact with reality is sporadic at best.
Two things:
- Eric isn't unknowledgeable about science, merely skeptical about its expansiveness
- Socialism may work. Capitalism, on the other hand, has run its course.
You are wrong about this but you can't understand why. Why is it that every time socialism has been tried it has failed badly every time. You would do well to consider what Rothbard had to say about Egalitarianism. Come to think of it what Mises had to say about Socialism might me of some value.
Eric the Obtuse is an idiot and always has been. Socialism can not and will not ever work for the simple reason that central planning in any form can not work. The death of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact should have taught you that. If the current experience of Venezuela can't teach you that then you truly are too stupid to live.
What does this ideological drivel have to do with 5G wireless telephony?
Extreme inegalitarianism is a barrier to technological and intellectual progress. It implies that nobody can buy innovative products .
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.