Post by equack on Jun 22, 2007 14:38:09 GMT -5
Hello, I would just like to introduce myself first. My name is Eric and I'm 16, I found out about the site from youthrights.org which I got very interested in after I began getting in trouble with my parents over poor grades.
Now, we each hold a belief so sincere: there is an inherent problem with the public education system. Yet, there are two views we offer as alternatives: anarcho-socialism which I see advocated frequently on these forums and anarcho-capitalism which I advocate. So we are both anarchists: the state sucks and we can agree on that. Yet, we support two different economic systems.
As mentioned earlier, I am in support of capitalism. As a strong natural-rights libertarian, I believe strongly in property rights which result from our own self-ownership and when we mix our labors with nature; property. Thus, everything that follows that is something I believe in as well: capitalism.
Now looking at the position of the anarcho-socialists, I can see why you would hold those beliefs. Capitalism may be part of the reason why the education system exists apart from indoctrination- giving people the skills they need to be productive on the market as they say. Thus, besides hearing the normal moral and social arguments for school, you hear the economic arguments that school makes us productive for capitalism. I've also read the Anti-Restaurant series as well and see the so-called issue of "wage slavery."
Yet, can it be denied that the reason we are discussing these topics on this forum is due to capitalism? Looking at the laborer from the middle ages until now, hasn't he improved due to capitalism? The robber baron argument and wage slavery argument seems to disfavor the system, but from my strong ideas of economics, I believe its state-interference working almost silently that has caused many to see these pitfalls with the system.
Most of the problems with capitalism have been due to silent, but deadly state-intervention. The Great Depression although blamed on capitalism (buying on margin, over-speculation, etc) is dubious when you look at the Federal Reserve Act. This applies to the robber barons as well, who were allowed amass a near monopoly, but does no one consider the Interstate Commerce act preventing small railroads from starting?
I am not saying capitalism is always good, inequality will always ensue. However, capitalism without state-intervention will allow the conditions of the worker to improve as the economy expands without interference.
I feel short-changed by the state education system, yet a non-compulsory education system through the private market would satisfy me. I would learn how I wanted to learn due a market for different schools. My interest, if shared by other consumers, would create a market for the school I want. For example, if I wanted to be an Austrian economist, then the school I would go to would be an Austrian school like the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The public education system is more to be blamed on socialism who strives for egalitarianism (i.e. education for everyone) and the state who wants it for indoctrination.
Is capitalism truly evil?
Now, we each hold a belief so sincere: there is an inherent problem with the public education system. Yet, there are two views we offer as alternatives: anarcho-socialism which I see advocated frequently on these forums and anarcho-capitalism which I advocate. So we are both anarchists: the state sucks and we can agree on that. Yet, we support two different economic systems.
As mentioned earlier, I am in support of capitalism. As a strong natural-rights libertarian, I believe strongly in property rights which result from our own self-ownership and when we mix our labors with nature; property. Thus, everything that follows that is something I believe in as well: capitalism.
Now looking at the position of the anarcho-socialists, I can see why you would hold those beliefs. Capitalism may be part of the reason why the education system exists apart from indoctrination- giving people the skills they need to be productive on the market as they say. Thus, besides hearing the normal moral and social arguments for school, you hear the economic arguments that school makes us productive for capitalism. I've also read the Anti-Restaurant series as well and see the so-called issue of "wage slavery."
Yet, can it be denied that the reason we are discussing these topics on this forum is due to capitalism? Looking at the laborer from the middle ages until now, hasn't he improved due to capitalism? The robber baron argument and wage slavery argument seems to disfavor the system, but from my strong ideas of economics, I believe its state-interference working almost silently that has caused many to see these pitfalls with the system.
Most of the problems with capitalism have been due to silent, but deadly state-intervention. The Great Depression although blamed on capitalism (buying on margin, over-speculation, etc) is dubious when you look at the Federal Reserve Act. This applies to the robber barons as well, who were allowed amass a near monopoly, but does no one consider the Interstate Commerce act preventing small railroads from starting?
I am not saying capitalism is always good, inequality will always ensue. However, capitalism without state-intervention will allow the conditions of the worker to improve as the economy expands without interference.
I feel short-changed by the state education system, yet a non-compulsory education system through the private market would satisfy me. I would learn how I wanted to learn due a market for different schools. My interest, if shared by other consumers, would create a market for the school I want. For example, if I wanted to be an Austrian economist, then the school I would go to would be an Austrian school like the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The public education system is more to be blamed on socialism who strives for egalitarianism (i.e. education for everyone) and the state who wants it for indoctrination.
Is capitalism truly evil?