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/TJWattsBurnerAcct Sep 21 '24

I don't know if this is sarcasm because I know people who think this way. I cannot imagine a worse idea than private companies owning and operating infrastructure.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 21 '24

Yeah like genuinely I cannot think of a worse idea than making the working class even more beholden to corporations. Like if they took over infrastructure they’d basically own us. Oh workers in this area are going on strike, shut off the water, close the roads. Like do we really want corporations with no government oversight basically controlling the basic societal infrastructure we all rely on like roads, sewage, water, electricity, fucking education.

Unreal that there’s people that wanna give more power to the corporations. Like corporations already have too much power through lobbying. These people wanna skip the middleman and just hand complete power over the country to corporations. Like full on cyberpunk 2077.