{"id":11385,"date":"2010-02-25T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11385"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:16:43","slug":"a-future-by-halves-vs-a-future-of-have-nots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11385\/a-future-by-halves-vs-a-future-of-have-nots\/","title":{"rendered":"A Future By Halves vs. A Future of Have-Nots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voluntaryism vs Social Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two quick polls: First, all those who enjoy belonging to a society that provides some minimal safety net for the least among us, please raise your hands… Ahh, I see some hands going up. Very good. Second, all those who occasionally enjoy being forced to do something against their will by threat of a gun, please raise your hands… Right, masochists aside I see no hands raised. Very good. The problem is, you cannot have one without the other. Thus spoke the Voluntaryists.<\/p>\n

On Monday night I was invited by fellow Bloodhound Brian Brady to attend a debate entitled Voluntaryism\/Market Anarchy vs. Democratic-Socialism<\/em> held in a little hot bed of thought and cafe<\/em> called Cafe Libertalia<\/a>. It was an engaging evening spent listening to the point \/ counter-point discussion on the very legitimacy of government itself. You can gain a more detailed understanding of Voluntaryism here<\/a> and of Social Democracy here<\/a>. (Although if you’re a regular reader of BHB you’ve no doubt gained quite a bit of free-market, Voluntaryism philosophy from our Greek emeritus: Greg Swann.)<\/p>\n

I must be honest in admitting that I know quite a bit less about Social Democracy philosophy than I do Voluntaryism, and the debate was of little help. The team on the Social Democracy side presented a less than cogent argument for a society wherein free markets and democracy exist in ever changing ratios, as dictated by the people themselves. When asked, the speakers could not name a single\u00a0 society where this system currently exists.\u00a0 When pressed, they admitted that the countries currently attempting it are abysmal failures.\u00a0 But this did not dissuade them from the idea<\/em> that it could exist. Their logic – such as it was – stemmed from the idea of pure democracy (one man, one vote) and concluded that the majority would decide which means of production should be left to the free markets and which to the nurturing womb of centralized government. “How can you be against that?” they asked.\u00a0 “We’re not advocating government take-over; we’re saying Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…all those who occasionally enjoy being forced to do something against their will by threat of a gun, please raise your hands…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,212],"tags":[466],"class_list":["post-11385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-mother","category-flourishing","tag-voluntaryism","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15686,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15686\/picking-our-pockets-one-wallet-at-a-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":11385,"position":0},"title":"Picking Our Pockets One Wallet at a Time","author":"Don Reedy, San Diego, CA","date":"February 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"State and federal officials say the settlement could eventually help as many as a million households. 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