piscator wrote:Seth wrote:...
The reason Obamacare is preferable to single-payer socialized medicine is that you can at least switch providers if you're dissatisfied with the service, which leaves a small element of free-market pressure to keep costs low and provide good service.
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Like you know a fucking thing about service... People don't do anything in your world save for their own profit or narcissism.
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Wrong. People do stuff out of charity, altruism and enlightened self-interest all the time. Our entire system depends on those features of well-formed adult personalities. The difference between Libertarianism and Marxism is that Libertarians do such things because they are good people with a sense of public responsibility and enlightened self-interest who voluntarily work to make society better while Marxists view every single person as nothing more than a cog in the great Marxist machine who is completely replaceable and disposable and worse, is presumptively evil and selfish and must therefore be monitored, controlled, directed and forced to work for the benefit of others according to what the Marxist elite judge is that person's "ability," while only giving that person what the elite judge is suitable to his "need"....according to them.
In other words, Libertarian society works precisely because it assumes that healthy, sane adults with well-formed personalities understand the social need for charity, altruism, self-sacrifice, cooperation and other beneficial human traits that make societies work. Marxism doesn't work precisely because it assumes that everyone is a slave to the state who must be forced to do what's best for the collective irrespective of what the individual wants, thinks or cares about.
It's free will cooperation in beneficial ways versus centrally-controlled slavery to the interests of others.
Libertarianism simply works better because it's voluntary and people are motivated to do good things because they are mentally and emotionally stable and healthy rather than emotionally and mentally crippled as liberals and Marxists are.
Privatization and competition hasn't improved the USPS one jot or tittle.
That's because the USPS has neither been privatized nor forced to compete, although that's what the bureaucrats would like you to think. If it had been privatized and forced to compete it wouldn't exist today and UPS and FedEx would be delivering mail faster, cheaper and more reliably than the USPS ever imagined in it's most fevered fantasy.
It's precisely BECAUSE the USPS has a congressionally-mandated lock on the delivery of mail (as opposed to parcels or urgent documents) that it can run inefficiently and at a deficit that has to be bolstered by the taxpayers.
It is the quintessential example of the evils of TRUE monopolistic practices, which as I've said before, can only exist where the government itself interferes with or prohibits free-market competition.
Somebody needs to put a stake through the heart of the USPS and turn the whole thing over to private industry, which will certainly do a better job that the overpaid union USPS employees who take more breaks that they actually work.
And the "free-market [competitive] pressure" you have such faith in went out the window when they started licensing doctors and nurses and insurance companies.[/quote]
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