Comments by "" (@freesk8) on "Jennifer Burns - The Truth About Milton Friedman" video.

  1. Ayn Rand is the greatest defender of the morality of free markets. Milton Friedman is one of the greatest defenders of the practical efficacy of free markets. Both perspectives are correct and critical.
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  2.  @JamesOGant  Actually, that's not true. They want to significantly decrease the power of the government, which some people co-opt in their attempts to rule. Both Rand and Friedman want corporations to be limited in power to compete with other corporations to serve willing customers, not to influence government policy. If government policy is limited, then corps have no power or advantage they can buy through corrupting politicians with campaign contributions. Limit the power of the politicians, and the campaign contributions will dry up.
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  3.  @tauIrrydah  HA HA is not an argument.
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  4. And yet, their ideas live on. And thanks for that! They were both great people.
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  5.  @conscientiamngo  I tend to like Hitchens, but I disagree with him on this point. Her writing is FAR from a joke.
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  6.  @conscientiamngo  It's not selfish to defend the individual rights of others that you yourself don't even practice. For instance, lots of Libertarians are not LGBT, yet we defended marriage equality when it was unpopular. Most Libertarians don't do drugs, but we fight for legalization. Libertarians don't want to over-tax you as selfish R's and D's do for their own spending agendas. I could go on and on. If you think that selfishness is what defines Libertarianism, then you don't know what Libertarianism is.
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  7.  @conscientiamngo  I think they tend to empower humanity, and encourage us to be heroic.
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  8.  @conscientiamngo  No, I will not lie to you.
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  9.  @conscientiamngo  Please identify my "lie" in the comments above. Then show me why it is a lie.
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