You guys need to start providing sources, my arguments are inherently more valid as they are based on reality and not the opinion of John Oliver last night. I'm not seeing any kind of rebuttal, if you want to call me crazy, fine, but that's an opinion. I'm not stating opinions, I'm merely analyzing causes and effects from my best attempt to establish a historically accurate vantage. That is done so by constructing syllogisms from factual events and the consequences there-of. These are not wild conjecture.
This is not free market capitalism:
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/568163
so, am I supposed to dig up a report of the murder of strikers at any number of places? Would that convince you? I don't think so.
The labor movement in this country grew out of transgressions by the so-called robber barons of the day like hiring the Pinkerton strike busting force. The labor movement was a necessary opposing force to the wealthy few suppressing its work force.
The wealthy don't act always do things that are in their own self interest. Suppressing and killing workers kind of pisses them off, you know? Also, take the "free market" as an example. As you know, "the market" is actually the result of actions by the players in the market. Without rules and regulators, the market players do their level best to dominate. The strongest eventually prevail and the market is no longer free. It happens all the time. It most notably happened in the US in the latter part if the 19th century-early part of the 20th. Sinclair documented it pretty well but I know that you are engrossed with the hypothetical. Things that actually happened provide inconvenient facts that perturb your fantasy and therefore are explained away or ignored.
That was all an ad hominem attack. Nicely done.
You aren't providing any examples. Bitcoin, please counter. You just state the opinion you hold that there is some kind of "lowest level of behavior" to revert to. That isn't a structured argument.
actually, I did provide an example of bitcoin as a corrupt monetary unit in an earlier post. Look up Gox Japan Bitcoin.
Edit: Oh what the hell, here is a link to a wikipedia site on Gox Bitcoin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
Millions of dollars worth of bitcoin were "lost". Hmm?
Oh god, how tiresome. Yeah, the war daddies made out and extended their tentacles into all sorts of places. You don't really know much about this do you? The industrialists of that age acted as they should -- in their own self interest. That there was nothing to oppose them was not their fault. They gobbled, murdered, threatened, used, abused, and basically did what they thought best. From opposition to that grew the populist movement, the Grange, and the labor movement. Eventually, our democracy corrected the system and put together rules and regulations that imperfectly oppose self interested actions by the wealthy.
I don't understand why populist is a bad term to be given a politician. Its my guess that the Robber Barons didn't like it. They have undue control over how history is written.
Somehow libertarian loonies like you think that the problem is the opposition to robber barons. Also that the solution to "the problem" is dissolution of the controls put in place to stop them. Robber barons like that.