Quote from: asdf on May 05, 2012, 12:18:38 AM

Quote from: benjamindees on May 04, 2012, 11:18:35 PM

So I guess it's fairly predictable that the particular brand of anarchist libertarian on this forum wouldn't have thought through his philosophies enough to realize that eliminating redistributive policies would also completely eliminate the fictional "labor advantage" of people who have to travel a thousand miles in order to work...

It is kind of surprising though that evorhees at least can't intuitively make the connection between the FED's substantial inflation tax and wages lost to immigration. Would you call the Federal Reserve "moral"? Do you consider the petrodollar "moral"? It seems rather odd to couch the exploitation of what is effectively modern-day tribute labor in terms of morality, especially when the armies that extract that tribute are financed via wealth-redistribution. And you go so far as to label the corporate beneficiaries of this theft the "moral" ones? I disagree. This is a huge issue, and one that is intimately tied with the fundamental reason for Bitcoin's existence. It's too bad that more of you don't recognize this.

Read it twice. Still don't know what your point is or even what you are saying. o_O

I'm pretty confident that evoorhees believes the FED to be immoral. Excuse me if I'm wrong.

As to the topic, it's asinine to blame immigration when we have sanctioned a monopoly institution with the moral right and obligation to initiate force and steal, then not realising that IT is the source of all our woes.

Hmmm yeah I read it three times and have no idea what he was saying. I think his thesis is this: "eliminating redistributive policies would also completely eliminate the fictional "labor advantage" of people who have to travel a thousand miles in order to work..."

What does it mean?? What is the fictional labor advantage?

And what's the comment regarding the "petro-dollar"? That's just a term referring to revenue generated by oil-rich states. I have no problem with people selling oil (though it should be privatized, not state run)... lol not sure what to address exactly