/liberty/ - Liberty

>>14483

>skinhead doesn't read a book

>makes memes

>greentexts about concepts he refuses to think about

Racists are a bunch of idiots.

>>14486

Those children had to work because their parents weren't making enough. They got paid shit, and had to work in shit conditions. This is why communism was so popular then.

>>14503

muh invisible stormweenies

angsty cuck detected

>>14516

>discrediting your own side

>>14518

>replying to those posts

shitposter detected

Umm, that's an axiom, you shouldn't question it.

>>14534

It's an adage. It's not an axiom.

And it's still true.

>>14523

>unrestricted capitalism makes life incredibly shitty (if you're lucky enough to live at all)

>this somehow discredits communism

>>14572

>not getting the point

all me keks go to you

>>14535

No, it's an axiom. It's a fundamental part of how reality is structured.

>>14582

this

Now observe that a free market does not level men down to some common denominator—that the intellectual criteria of the majority do not rule a free market or a free society—and that the exceptional men, the innovators, the intellectual giants, are not held down by the majority. In fact, it is the members of this exceptional minority who lift the whole of a free society to the level of their own achievements, while rising further and ever further.

A free market is a continuous process that cannot be held still, an upward process that demands the best (the most rational) of every man and rewards him accordingly. While the majority have barely assimilated the value of the automobile, the creative minority introduces the airplane. The majority learn by demonstration, the minority is free to demonstrate. The “philosophically objective” value of a new product serves as the teacher for those who are willing to exercise their rational faculty, each to the extent of his ability. Those who are unwilling remain unrewarded—as well as those who aspire to more than their ability produces. The stagnant, the irrational, the subjectivist have no power to stop their betters . . . .

The mental parasites—the imitators who attempt to cater to what they think is the public’s known taste—are constantly being beaten by the innovators whose products raise the public’s knowledge and taste to ever higher levels. It is in this sense that the free market is ruled, not by the consumers, but by the producers. The most successful ones are those who discover new fields of production, fields which had not been known to exist.

A given product may not be appreciated at once, particularly if it is too radical an innovation; but, barring irrelevant accidents, it wins in the long run. It is in this sense that the free market is not ruled by the intellectual criteria of the majority, which prevail only at and for any given moment; the free market is ruled by those who are able to see and plan long-range—and the better the mind, the longer the range.

>>14582

You don't understand what an axiom is.

"The freer the market, the freer the people!" is an analytic claim which in most contexts requires qualification.

The statement is true because markets are the sum of trades. The freer the market, the more freedoms the agents of that market can exercise. All alternatives to the free market rely on the restriction of choice. However socialists and planners try and frame it, all their systems rely controlling the activities of producers and consumers – people – be it through price floors, price ceilings, quotas, compelling trades, compelling production or expropriating the means of production and giving it to others. They might argue that they are right in doing so because their control supposedly improves the welfare of people, but nobody should then entertain the idea that their 'benign' authoritarianism is ever freer than the free market.