Comments on: Free Market Flawed. In Other News, The Sky Is Blue.

By: Toogus

Toogus — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:48:43 +0000

Two major problems with this. First, the US (nor anywhere else) has a truly free market economy. We are burdened with massive regulations and perversions that distort the efficiencies that would be present if truly unfettered. Second, whether or not many people believe something is not a valid way of proving it to be true. Argumentum ad populum fallacy. For example, if 100 people in a room believe that a cat is a dog, it doesn’t make it so.

By: vei

vei — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:40:35 +0000

why come to knock something if youre not interested in what it has to say? do you honestly have that little interest in the massive amounts of information the internet holds? or are you that fed up with your own life that you feel the need to badger something someone else wrote?
hoe hum. Keep up the good work sarcasmist!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:29:46 +0000

It amazes me how often people don’t realize what this website is really all about. Keep up the good work The Sarcasmist, the comments you get always make my day. =D

By: The Sarcasmist

The Sarcasmist — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:22:41 +0000

Maybe I should have started the ‘article’ with unnecessary ellipses. Would that have made it better?

By: Lainey

Lainey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:16:33 +0000

…this article is terribly written. Brevity is your friend. Unless, of course, you’re British. Then you get to be as unintelligible as you please!

By: sanjay

sanjay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:52:50 +0000

Really – this isn’t news – had they asked everyone in 2006 when they were enjoying the benefits of capitalism I wonder if a different answer would have emerged. The strength in capitalism is not that it’s always good all the time, but that there is a path to make things better.
Also, in looking at the BBC article that is referenced here, the middle choice of “has flaws that can be addressed through regulation and reform” was almost certainly going to garner the majority of votes given the current economic climate.
If you’ve got a better system, let’s here it!

By: eileen

eileen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:32 +0000

Now that is interesting !