(Part 2) Best products from r/libertarianmeme
We found 2 comments on r/libertarianmeme discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 22 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
But you're missing his last point:
"Politicians and their corporate sponsors have tricked ordinary Americans into thinking legitimate enemies exist and must be confronted. The truth is that there are no enemies, only business opportunities."
Sure, war requires supplies, and there are people who can provide those supplies. However, when war is started purely for financial gain, that's when we hit a moral problem.
The book:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Is-Racket-Americas-Decorated/dp/1626361053/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1413326729&sr=8-2&keywords=war+is+a+racket
Read Capitalism and the Historians and you'll have a better idea what this is about. There are some stock charges against the market, and some point to the Industrial Revolution as evidence.
"It made workers worse off" - The truth is that there were many factors contributing to poverty, and industrialization was making superhuman progress against them. You also had an activist government commissioning zillions of studies on worker quality of life because for the first time ever the government gave a crap. Add to that an old-money, aristocratic intelligentsia with an axe to grind against the nouveau riche entrepreneurs, and it should be clear that there were vested interests in making the factories sound as terrible as possible. Ever wonder where we get the term "wage slave?" Industrialization was allowing non-slave labor to decimate slave labor in the marketplace, so the conservatives who favored keeping slavery had to come up with something to make their opponents look bad.
Academics also complained workers had to live in dark, poorly ventilated apartments. But the government charged a tax on how many windows you had. Incentives matter!
"It created modern (evil) capitalism" - The hard-line anti-capitalists will say that capitalism as we know it depended on the British process of "enclosure", by which previously public lands that the farmers used got stolen from them by the government and given to robber barons to build their factories on. But those common lands were suffering from a tragedy of the commons in the first place. While it was wrong to give the factory builders first dibs, it was not wrong to let the property finally be owned by someone.
There's definitely more than this, it's in that book, but let it suffice to say that the usual statist's narrative of the Industrial Revolution goes like this:
The version of events not tainted by bad economics is more like this: Life was shit, someone invented machines to make it less shit. Once life started getting better, the ivory tower folks thought any hardship at all was a crime against humanity, and tried to outlaw life being shit. Fortunately the market did that for them already.