Free-market authoritarianism.

Editor,

I find it fascinating that posters who are opposed to "government" leap immediately to the conclusion that a more equitable distribution of the wealth workers create must be "enforced" by a "government."

I mean, really, the knee-jerk authoritarianism of "free" market libertarians is so blatant one would think they would notice it themselves.

Be all this as it may, as I said in my post, rich people rip off poor people because they can, and they get away with it because they are powerful enough to do it.

OK, fine. So the argument is a MORAL one, a question not of government but of governance, a question of motivation, a question of ends not a question of means.

Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to make as much money as they possibly can by any means ... blah, blah, blah. This rule holds only if the actors in a political culture buy it, and they buy it only if it works for them.

Frankly, I would rather live in a world that is environmentally healthy and a society that is built on "truth, justice, and the American way" than one in which I am chauffeured past horrible slums in a dying world to some stupidly posh destination or other.

I personally feel comfortable being a member of the human race. This sentiment seems to be sorely lacking among my free-market authoritarian friends.

Re: "What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found" (2/23/2012)