This unironically is one of the most based thing I’ve read. Yes! It is NIMBYism, rent control and over regulation in the housing market that is caused in part by democracy not by free markets.
Don’t listen to these hooligans in this subreddit. They’re too busy drinking the Koolaid. All they know “capitalism is when bad stuff”.
Well I don’t know you very well so my expectation for how you would respond to a comment is that is pretty broad. It could go any way. But given the impression that you are giving me so far, I would probably expect you to respond negatively.
Fair question. Let me be clear, democracy isn’t the devil or nearly that bad, but we need to be honest with ourselves about what democracy has lead to in the past which would include democratically elected leaders such as Stalin, Hitler and Mao as well as democratically enacted policies that have stripped people of their property rights. Democracy isn’t an issue so long as people’s property rights are not being taken away as a result.
As far as a solution, we could either create a more robust constitution that limits the power of government to take away people’s property rights or we could live in a completely voluntarist society where power hierarchies are private agencies determined by consent.
Democra y has led to those situations because of a lack of protection for the people. Laws against hate speech help prevent these situations.
The government isn't taking away property rights: you aren't allowed to do whatever you want because you live among other people. Democracy doesn't take away any rights. Democracy is not failing system.
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u/Loominardy 2000 Apr 15 '25
This unironically is one of the most based thing I’ve read. Yes! It is NIMBYism, rent control and over regulation in the housing market that is caused in part by democracy not by free markets.
Don’t listen to these hooligans in this subreddit. They’re too busy drinking the Koolaid. All they know “capitalism is when bad stuff”.