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@WandererUber @Griffith Circling back to what he said, markets still rely on the state to function, because they can't function without courts and police enforcing the rules. The old libertarian line was that the initiation of the use of force (or threat thereof) was where the free market ends and the government begins, but that force is going to happen by SOMEONE, and whoever wins gets to set the rules. So ultimately free markets need people with guns to protect them, and you have to give those people a reason to protect them instead of turning on you. When capitalism includes legalized drug pushers (pharma) and rigged gambling (stock markets), it's hard to see why people should defend that.

But you're also right that Social Darwinism needs to happen because evolution affects humans too: feed the retards, and before long your society is filled with retards. The compromise is generally that you find the poor but capable people in your society and prop them up so they're not affected by the worst excesses of a pure capitalist system, but not so much that you're feeding the retards. Welfare should be restricted from the lowest tier, unless they voluntarily get sterilized so they don't reproduce.

This compromise was reached by a certain Austrian painter, and I don't see why it can't happen again. German industries were free to seek wealth as long as they weren't hurting the people as a whole, and the poor were cared for in exchange for loyalty and service. Such a system could work again, provided the Epstein Class are driven out first.