/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3960040
>cheers the progress of melting polar ice caps for DRILL BABY DRILL in Antarctica

No honestly. You just lost all right to speak to me ever again. I will no longer respond to you (knowingly.)

The free market... friend of the working man, a boon to society.

>>3480663

yfw 19th century 'fuck the poor, they're lazy' attitudes persist in the 21st century

>>3470193

In the mind of the internet libertarian, everyone who became rich did so through hard work, and everyone else is just being lazy. How do we know they are being lazy? Because they are not wealthy. Yet the working class can be compelled to work overtime, while the capitalists cannot. The working class, especially in the third world, has unsafe conditions and is paid poorly in comparison to the vast profits posted by the corporations who buy hours of their lives.

People living in such poverty should be able to afford the extravagant cost of healthcare, thinks the internet libertarian, and if they can't, well, they should have worked harder.

The thought of driving down the cost of essential services by nationalizing them does not even occur to the internet libertarian; he instead believes the opposite. Privatization, rather than driving up prices or slashing quality in the quest for profits, will lead to efficiency. In the mind of the internet libertarian, every market is perfectly competitive. Cartels, oligopolies and monopolies, and above all barriers to entry simply do not exist.

The idea of people working together and sharing their profits equally is regarded with disdain, because of the selfish paradigm through which they view the world. One day, they think, they will climb the ladder, rise up out of the masses and become one of the exploiters they defend. One day they will have a learjet and a private island.

One day they too will be wealthy enough to buy crank economists like hayek and mises media attention like their heroes did in the 50s.

And then, they think, the world will echo with the libertarian battle-cry: "I've got mine; fuck you!"

For the origins of the libertarian movement, see:

http://www.slate.com/id/2297019/

I'll just leave this here.

>>3187579
that's a strawman. progress will still happen if you cut the wages of the top 10%

>>3138331

The stupidest of stupidest comments so far. Of COURSE high income inequality means the poor are going to be worse off. If at the present more wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, that's less for everyone else.

Furthermore, having a large, poor population is terrible for a domestic economy since they will have low demand for goods and services due to not being able to afford anything.

>>3055382
just because change takes a long time it doesn't mean you're "losing"

slavery ended, gays don't have the death penalty anymore, other stuff...

I think this.

>>2932232
>Why the fuck is there going to be a food and water crisis? Technology will have risen to solve both of these problems in about twenty years
The same reason why there is still shitloads of AIDS and malaria in Africa, and millions of people in the US are uninsured medically and/or in poverty.
Shit isn't distributed according to need, but according to how much currency you have.

>>2675179

>for some reason corporations get off scot free.

hmm, I wonder why this happens...