Kalivyah wrote:Xerographica wrote:A long time ago i lived in china for half a year. i ate a wide variety of very delicious and affordable street food nearly everyday and didn't get food poisoning once.
regulation has 3 main results
1. decrease the variety and quality of food
2. increase the price of food
3. decrease employment options
everybody gets screwed. poorer people get especially screwed.
you have this idea that legislators are magically enlightened enough to correctly weigh the costs and benefits of regulation for you, me and every other unique individual in society. this idea is the most harmful idea ever.
you want to voluntarily contribute to a non-profit organization that certifies participating food companies as meeting a high standard of cleanliness? fine, no problem. if you're concerned about the problem of free-riding, fine, it's a reasonable concern, therefore taxes. but it is entirely not fine if you think it's a good idea for somebody who doesn't even know my favorite fruit to decide how my taxes should be spent.
Didn't you just say that you lived in China? You mean the one who is still quite regulatory of its economy? Who has never been fully free market capitalist? You... you literally just proved the point that regulation increases the variety and quality of food... not to mention that regulation can actually cause prices to drop down as it prevents corporations from increasing the prices of products.
Ahh... average libertarian.
The average libertarian doesn't know this...
It is impossible for anyone, even if he be a statesman of genius, to weigh the whole community's utility and sacrifice against each other. - Knut Wicksell, A New Principle of Just Taxation
Seldon, on the other hand, knows my fav fruit.
I recently tried soursop for the 1st time. It was quite good, but it wasn't better than jackfruit, which I only tried for the 1st time a couple years ago. Wish that I had tried it when I was a kid.
It's really sad that most of you have never tried soursop or jackfruit. Is this an example of market failure? No, it's an example of my failure. I failed to persuade the members of a rare fruit forum that it would be incredibly beneficial if donations (to the forum) could be used to rank fruit.
Donations have been used to rank the themes of the past few libertarian conventions, unlike the dates and locations. The Invisible Hand can be trusted to rank the themes, but it can't be trusted to rank the dates and locations?
Libertarianism is characterized by a highly incoherent viewpoint on the Invisible Hand, unlike pragmatarianism.