1. Notes: 208 / 4 months ago  from self-ownership (originally from verbasinfinitas)
    self-ownership: evilteabagger: self-ownership: atomicsocialist: brosephstalin: Because the glitzyness of a city is clearly an indication of well off the people are. Does anyone see anything wrong with Havana? It actually looks like a really nice place.  FFS no it doesn’t. It looks like a ghetto. The image is even enlarged on your own damn blog so quit lying to yourself. Better picture: But for the sake of argument, countries with more economic freedom, that is to say: property rights, freedom of contract, rule of law etc., enjoy the best standards of living in the world. They have better access to healthcare, longer life expectancy, higher reported happiness, less child labor, less governmental corruption, higher wages, and lower cost of living. Any economics class would tell you that markets are better at organizing and allocating resources. At least way better than the alternative: central, top down planning. See also: Economic freedom and growth Economic freedom and a better life Economic freedom and quality of life Economic freedom in America The Market Revolution (my personal favorite, but also the longest) Are markets empowering or exploitative? Is the cost of living really rising? Evilteabagger said everything I wanted to say. I was just too fucking lazy to write it all out. Note: The Korean War ended only 58 years ago. Adam, I’m going to have to disagree with you again. Firstly, the original picture is a joke for comparing Havana to Hong Kong. However, on the issue of socialism and capitalism, capitalism is not absolutely and definitively the best evar!!1 Socialism has been a failed experiment if we look at history, but it is not an evil or even impracticable ideal. I am far from a socialist and I embrace the opportunities afforded by living in a capitalist society, but this system comes with costs not accounted for in economics. And who knows, technology will ultimately change our world, and with it, the fundamentals of what we understand as society. Capitalism will not always be the savior of the world.

    self-ownership:

    evilteabagger:

    self-ownership:

    atomicsocialist:

    brosephstalin:

    Because the glitzyness of a city is clearly an indication of well off the people are.

    Does anyone see anything wrong with Havana? It actually looks like a really nice place. 

    FFS no it doesn’t. It looks like a ghetto. The image is even enlarged on your own damn blog so quit lying to yourself.

    Better picture:

    But for the sake of argument, countries with more economic freedom, that is to say: property rights, freedom of contract, rule of law etc., enjoy the best standards of living in the world. They have better access to healthcare, longer life expectancy, higher reported happiness, less child labor, less governmental corruption, higher wages, and lower cost of living.

    Any economics class would tell you that markets are better at organizing and allocating resources. At least way better than the alternative: central, top down planning.

    See also:

    Evilteabagger said everything I wanted to say. I was just too fucking lazy to write it all out.

    Note: The Korean War ended only 58 years ago.

    Adam, I’m going to have to disagree with you again.

    Firstly, the original picture is a joke for comparing Havana to Hong Kong.

    However, on the issue of socialism and capitalism, capitalism is not absolutely and definitively the best evar!!1 Socialism has been a failed experiment if we look at history, but it is not an evil or even impracticable ideal. I am far from a socialist and I embrace the opportunities afforded by living in a capitalist society, but this system comes with costs not accounted for in economics. And who knows, technology will ultimately change our world, and with it, the fundamentals of what we understand as society. Capitalism will not always be the savior of the world.

    (Source: verbasinfinitas)

     

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