Re: Fairness: You are right, but your response took me off guard (a good thing). I think that the difference between more free/decentralized societies and more controlled/centralized societies is who is expected to "do the fairness". I watched a video awhile back of a left wing economist who was talking about how if there was a store, and a starving child came in and asked for bread, they couldn't give it to him or they would go out of business. It was an extreme example, but it is true. If a store spends a large amount of money on charity and not on satisfying their customers, they will go out of business. However, charity in a capitalistic system does not come from organizations, it comes from individuals. Nothing is preventing the storekeep from giving to the starving child from his/her own wages. The underlying principal is that you can't give something away if you have not first earned it. The store belongs to the owner. A worker has not made the bread, they are just selling it. The bread is not theirs to give.
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