Posted 2014-September-18, 17:35
Two kinds of power: economic power and political power. Either can create, either can destroy. I think you'll find in most cases where economic power is used to destroy, the user violates a primary part of the golden rule: "an' it harm none, do what thou wilt". They take the second part, and discard the first, bolded, and IMO more important, part. Political power is all about force. Sometimes that works out well, more often not. Though the downside can often be hard to see, particularly early on.
A small "capitalist" community has the same problem as any small non-mainstream community - they have to deal, somehow, with the rest of the world.
People are lazy - they see something that needs fixing, and instead of getting out there and fixing it, they scream for the gummint to fix it - and oh, by the way, gimme moar welfare while you're at it!
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