jetpack domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131updraftplus domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131avia_framework domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /mnt/stor08-wc1-ord1/694335/916773/www.tvhe.co.nz/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131I think you might be deaf – in a reading sense.
A free market does not necessarily ensure that people have choices, or that there is opportunities for people. I have read Rousseau – in fact I’m a big fan:
http://tvhe.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/all-men-are-born-free-but-everywhere-they-are-in-chains/
I think if you re-read my comment from before – you will realise that your comment makes no sense. You are attacking a straw man.
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]]>More orwellian “choice” rhetoric. Choice to buy “arnots” crackers or “yumyum” crackers is pretty empty. If you think freedom to consume what ever you want whenever you want is what’s important in life, you’ve got a pretty hollow beliefs system.
Everyone has “choice” in a free market, and it’s all a level playing field because everyone is born with the same opportunities. Crap. What a bout freedom from market externalities?
Imagine if someone cut off your right arm and told you, you have the same “choices” as everyone else because you live in a free-market economy. This “choice” rhetoric will sound the same to someone who say, grew up in poverty and who only knew hopelessness desperation and depression, all because of the “choices” that the market gave their parents. And so the cycle goes on.
Yes …. “choice” – another brainwashed economist.
]]>A) Not the point of the post – why didn’t you find a post on happiness to spam comments on?
B) When have I ever said free-market=happiness? I have said that I believe a society that allows choice will end up with a higher level of happiness than a society that restricts it – but have I ever even said that a “free market” promotes choice?
Define what you think a “free market” and I will tell you if I think its super duper.
This blog is called “the visible hand” because we do believe there is a role for government – and that role comes from helping to create an environment where individuals can make choices, and where the costs and benefits of those choices accurately reflect the true social benefits and costs. If you had read the posts we do around here before (which I wouldn’t ask you to do – it just seems unusual that you feel you can describe my views without reading them) you would realise that.
I think you are trying to find some dogmatic “neo-liberal/neo-conservative/evil-corporate” conspiracy here when one does not exist.
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