Is Laissez Faire Capitalism the new Feudalism??

[Scrapheap]

Well, what do you think??

[Adam]

well I think... 

[Scrapheap]

This is a serious topic, NOT one of your stupid spam threads. 

[Adam]

i are serious soph

this are serious thread

hur hur hur

 

[Scrapheap]

i are serious soph

You're too fucktarded to be serious. 

[Adam]

seriously?

 

[TheoK]

Well, what do you think??

Yes. And society is becoming like "1984", which you can see on the infringements on freedom of all kind, globalism, superstates and "war against terror".

[Osensitive1]

Feudalism is an unavoidable aspect of any properly functioning society regardless of the type of government. Replace lords, vassals, and peasants with the state, civil service workers, and the working class and it still functions the same. Any time the government has too much control it limits freedom of the people. This is also true in economics, so laissez faire capitalism isn't such a horrible thing. Of course, when it comes to to international trade a certain level of economic self-interest is important. Surely it's a delicate balance.

[TheoK]

Feudalism is an unavoidable aspect of any properly functioning society regardless of the type of government. Replace lords, vassals, and peasants with the state, civil service workers, and the working class and it still functions the same. Any time the government has too much control it limits freedom of the people. This is also true in economics, so laissez faire capitalism isn't such a horrible thing. Of course, when it comes to to international trade a certain level of economic self-interest is important. Surely it's a delicate balance.

You get rid of the state and all hierarchies, you get rid of feudalism.

[Osensitive1]

Are you an anarchist?

[TheoK]

 

[Osensitive1]

Oh, okay. Your initial response threw me off a bit.

[Osensitive1]

Well, what do you think??

Am thinking it took a while to get what this might be about. Since laissez faire capitalism is the lack of involvement by government in economics, the association with feudalism was hard to make. Are you strictly discussing international trade? As stated before, governments have some level of responsibility to their people when protecting their economy and a laissez faire attitude might not always be what's best where this is concerned. Are you saying laissez faire capitalism in international trade allows business to dictate this feudalistic hierarchy among countries rather than their respective governments, making the merchants the lords so to speak?

[SleepyDragon]

Well, what do you think??

I'll have to get back to you later on this one. Trying to think of the parallels between a mode of economic functioning (laissez-faire capitalism) and a social system of governance (feudalism) is doing my head in.

[Blasted]

well I think... 

I agree!