[tylerdurden]

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Enough with the anarcho-capitalism, pvn. And whats with the people spending their money to alleviate their own suffering? How do poor people fit in your world, if at all? If im poor and I get sick, do I rely on the charity of others to get enough money to see a doctor. Thats socialism, not capitalism. According to pure capitalism, if im poor and cant afford a doctor or medication, I die.

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Yes, that's exactly right. In pure capitalism, people are prohibited from contributing to chairity.

Accepting chairity from others is NOT socialism. The donors give *voluntarily*.

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By the same token, if gasoline just hit $20 a gallon and I cant afford a new "state of the art" $100,000 fuel cell vehicle and the $19 a gallon equiv price of fuel to run it, im screwed. But not just me! Most of the population is in the same predicament. Yeah great, oil prices have made fuel cell vehicles economical, but only in relation TO OIL PRICES, which are sky high already. OR....I could live in a country whose government spent money on innovation and infrastructure over the preceeding 30 years, making fuel cell vehicles as affordable as a 2005 model gasoline engine vehicle and aready have the pipelines and solar stations and wind turbines in place. Sure, a lot of what my government spent is wasted, but it turned out better in the long run.

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Right. So in your wacko scenario, when gas hits $20/gal tomorrow, what's the government going to do? Wow, what a system.

Oh, are you suggesting a more gradual runup to $20/gal gas? And you think nobody will notice that prices are rising? People have *already* noticed and are *already* doing something about it. "The government" solution will take *longer*, be *crappier* and *more* expensive.

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A moderately cushioned transition, instead of one made up of spasms dictated by the price of a commodity which comes from a very unpredictable part of the world.

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How is government going to make things more predictable?