Thursday, March 31, 2005

The Unfree Market

As an opposite to the Free Market of the Right, the Unfree Market is the core of the Leftist's political battle. The Unfree Market represents collectivism and government control over people and companies.

Historically, the Unfree Market has done more harm than most of the wars and diseases of the 20th century. Still it's being preached but of course with other phrases. To name one, the modern spokesman of the Unfree Market says that preaching government control over large proportions of the incomes of people and companies does not mean limited individual freedom. This, of course, is absurd because a particular action cannot have many different decisions behind it. A dollar can only be spent once and if the earner of the dollar doesn't agree with the State on how the dollar spent he might face jail time and other punishments. If an individual wants to say "fuck" and the State doesn't want anyone to say "fuck", the individual looses. When the State expands, the individual shrinks.

The Unfree Market also has other specifications than decreased freedom for individuals and their companies, such as giving individuals the feeling they are not the masters of their own destiny and not responsible for the decisions they make which result in the actions they take. Smoking, fatty and unhealthy diets, over-spending, stress, drug-usage and foul language become "social" problems. Rather than helping those who want to help to focus on those who need help and bring them together with those who seek help, everyone is made to believe they need help. The individual becomes a statistic that needs increased funding and/or more institutions.

The thought "free market" means individuals freely doing business with each other, or freely communicating, or freely exchanging something (money, goods, advice, hugs) for something else (stocks, gifts, recommendations, kisses) or sometimes something for nothing - and everyone participates as long as no-one harms anyone else with force (and if they do, the police shows up). Those who fight against the free market by promoting taxes, border-barriers, regulations and State-controlled moral-codes fight free co-existence of free humans and exchange it with canals for everyone to follow.

The Unfree Market is a terrible thing. Lets keep it in the history-books.

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