Geode, that was a litany of lack of understanding. But my corn was delicious. The coffee shop was too busy so I had a nice cup of tea at home instead. I will zoom right now and get the coffee somewhere else. Also, will deliver some property to grandson [said property being corn and blackberries which I found at the shop which sells good quality green-croceries]. I'll swing by said grandson's father's cafe and score a coffee there [not as good as my favourite, but not bad].
Would you name a government programme which works well please? I haven't come across any I can think of, but maybe there's something which they've done not terribly.
How do you make the court system less expensive? It's a monopoly remember. The legal guild is a monopoly too. Competition is a hint I can give you.
<If 'market forces' work so well, why don't the citizens of totalitarian regimes bump them off and establish a new regime that's more to their liking? What's stopping them exactly?>
You are obviously confused about what market forces are. Markets are specifically where people buy and sell, without using guns to get the property from the others. They don't bump them off because they will be attacked. You need some easy reading on what markets are. They are not found in totalitarian places other than in trivial ways - as long as the thugs aren't nearby.
Libertarians don't say they can invent the world from scratch in a desert on their own. You are obviously confused again. Read the link I gave you. <In that case, Horatio Alger, you should be able to go to, say, Afghanistan's hinterlands, start from scratch and make your way on your own steam. Can't do it without the societal infrastructure?>
Where did you get the idea I would? <Human beings are supposed to transcend the squabblings and dog eat dog attitude of other animals. Why would you want to revert back to that?> You have a strange way of interpreting what I write.
<Why would you want to live in a world where it's money-money-money all the time?> Yes, in a word. But unfortunately, money is a very blunt instrument and completely inadequate for most purposes, so we use other means of interaction. The transaction cost of using money is hugely too high to use it for things such as me giving you free Libertarian lessons, and ethical and moral ideas as a bundled bonus. If I was MSFT, I'd have to unbundle the ethics from the morals and sell the Libertarian web link separately.
And where did you get the idea that how much money/wealth somebody has is the measure of their value? You misunderstand money and wealth. Those are how much they WERE worth, in the past, to other people, who gave them the money. What they are worth now is what they WILL do in future. The money they hold isn't their value. People say "I am worth $10 million" or some such, but they mean they have got that much. What they are worth to other people is nothing to do with the $10 million.
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