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Originally Posted by Shawnski
Jokes aside, capitalism is voluntary, socialism isn't.
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The naivety of this statement encapsulates everything mistaken about libertarianism: those who work for wages under capitalism do not do so because it is "voluntary", they do so because in such a system there is no other way to survive. Those with economic advantage can and will coerce those at an economic disadvantage, because coercion and hierarchy of power is inherent in any system that manages human beings.
The perfect libertarian state is about as likely as the perfect Marxist state, and for exactly the same reason - people game every system and find the ways to exploit others within it. The only way to truly ameliorate this truth is to have a system that evolves alongside and against its parasites, which a theocracy of money is far to simple to succeed at doing.