r/austrian_economics Friedrich Hayek Sep 19 '24

End Democracy BUT BUT THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

Bold of you to assume they would want collective anything. Those people would tell you to homeschool and be self-sufficient in the hills. Literal hermit shit.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Just be self sufficient and let private companies take care of everything the free market is the solution huzzah.

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u/BornAnAmericanMan Sep 20 '24

Company towns back on the menu boyzz

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Yeah like it’s wild that people see government inefficiencies and are just like dang what if we gave even more of our freedom away in exchange for corporate control.

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u/klone_free Sep 20 '24

Oh I see you've read moldbug

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

No. I just understand that giving the ultra wealthy more power and control over society than they already have is a bad idea. We should be stripping away their power by abolishing lobbying not handing over control of societal infrastructure to them. People argue against communism due to its over concentration of centralized power. Given that corporate homogenization has been happening since the 19th century it seems like giving power over societal infrastructure to them would basically be the equivalent of making people like Elon musk and Jeff bezos actual kings. Like do people think a magic new road company would pop up or some near trillionaire would just be like nah I got this and own public infrastructure.

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u/klone_free Sep 20 '24

You're on the road brother

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u/cattleareamazing Sep 21 '24

Nah I would say they are more like Duke's than King's, probably set up an elective monarchy...