Meryuma wrote:He wants no state and no capitalist property - consistent freedom from authoritarian control.
I believe that I was waiting on Bluth to say his view himself, out of his own independent reasoning. But he chose to go silent.
But as it stands, I'll reply to you.
How does the presence or non presence of a state, or others having or not having capital property, affect your empowerment as an individual to improve your own life from grassroot/bottom up?
You don't know what authoritarian control is. Bluth is basically implying that he wants bigger economic security as a safety net, because he doesn't want to work. If the government is small and non interventionist, the whole point is that they are NOT interfering with your life.
If someone can't make the most of the empowerment and right to economic freedom that they already have, how on
earth are they going to acquire their food, clothing, and shelter without any employers providing them with a job, or the state providing any safety net?
I'm waiting for a methodology. I haven't had one yet, apart from rehashed "hur dur capitalists and state is bad hur dur".
Meryuma wrote:So your idea of freedom is the ability to use threats to control the behavior of others? Wow.
When most people think of someone who lives a free life, they'd think perhaps of a touring musician or nomadic traveler - someone with few obligations who makes their way in life according to their own dreams. The archetype of your idea of freedom would be a schoolyard bully - someone who makes themselves free of people they don't like through coercion.
Where did I type ANYTHING about controlling others behaviour? That's not what I said, at all.
I just said that if an employee was taking too much carefree liberty of thinking they were infallible, but my business (and consequently livelihood) was suffering as a result, I should have the freedom
as an employer to fire that employee, and hire someone else, because I would only pay people that were actually doing a job.
Please read.
I'm not hindering their life, I just don't want them in my company anymore.
This isn't about universal freedom, this is about
ECONOMIC freedom. It's different to social/personal freedom. I'm not sure what else I can do, to stress this.