13 Feb 2010 (updated 14 Feb 2010 at 10:49 UTC)
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wingo
writes about anarchy. He's free to do that, of course, but
it should be pointed out that, under that regime, computer
programming as a profession, or even computers, would
probably not even exist. There are examples, these days, of
countries
which are effectively without government, and they aren't
exactly doing smashingly.
Yes, capitalism sucks, but alternatives were tried and
they all failed. In my own country, we lived under an
inflation of 2500%/year (not a typo), until decidedly
pro-market reforms were implemented. Much more could have
been done, if only those reforms weren't so vigorously
opposed at the time by the left-wing party which is
currently in power. Said left-wing party now doesn't dare
touch the fundamentals of those economic reforms, and brags
about the positive results as if they were they were
exclusively of their own doing, but it doesn't matter.
They worked.