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Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Andrew Cain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:56:58 GMT

GilesStratton:
I think they're only better because the incentives of the US government force them to be.

Is it really an incentive if you are forced to do something?

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

hayekianxyz — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:39:55 GMT

DD5:

I thank my good statist masters everyday that they are so kind and not as mean as those other masters in the more totalitarian States.

I should be grateful for Obama and Bush for I could have lived under Saddam.

Giles, after you finish your degree, how long will it take you to say YES to a job offer at the Fed? 10 seconds, 20 seconds?

That's nothing but a strawman, I've never said you should thank Obama and Bush for not being as bad. I think they're only better because the incentives of the US government force them to be. But that doesn't change the fact that you can, and do, spend a lot of your time writing about how much you hate the US government etc.

And as for my job at the Fed, in case you misunderstood me I said I wouldn't mind getting some sort of RA work at a central bank or other such organization, I hardly aspire to be the chairman of the Fed. If you've got anything serious to add, go for it, I'll respond. If you're just going to continue with this petulance I think I'm done here.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Andrew Cain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:21:28 GMT

Daniel:
UCLA in the nice area of Los Angeles, next to Beverly Hills. At most, you'll get scammed by someone offering you to take you to the PlayBoy mansion.

Still I don't like big cities except for NYC.

Daniel:
What about Stanford?

Too expensive.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

zefreak — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:12:58 GMT

If you go to UCLA, we can be neighbors :)

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

DanielMuff — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:15:35 GMT

Laughing Man:

Daniel:
UCLA is in California. It's University of California, Los Angeles

Why the hell did I think it was in Carolina....?

I certainly don't want to live in Los Angeles. I'd probably get shot at my first day.

UCLA in the nice area of Los Angeles, next to Beverly Hills. At most, you'll get scammed by someone offering you to take you to the PlayBoy mansion. But USC (University of Southern California) is right in the middle of the rough parts of Los Angeles. There you might get shot. What about Stanford?

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Le Master — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:41:36 GMT

Some bored soul ought to transcript this video for everyone. I would, but I have serious trouble discerning a lot of what he says (which is a big reason why I'd like it transcripted). I need to watch more BBC and get my ears more attuned to those damned accents.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Andrew Cain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:18:28 GMT

Daniel:
UCLA is in California. It's University of California, Los Angeles

Why the hell did I think it was in Carolina....?

I certainly don't want to live in Los Angeles. I'd probably get shot at my first day.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Capital Pumper — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:11:30 GMT

DD5:

I thank my good statist masters everyday that they are so kind and not as mean as those other masters in the more totalitarian States.

I should be grateful for Obama and Bush for I could have lived under Saddam.

Giles, after you finish your degree, how long will it take you to say YES to a job offer at the Fed? 10 seconds, 20 seconds?

I'd like to thank my government masters for being indirectly responsible for creating black market cartels. We need our kids to grow a sack, and collude with some of MS-13's finest for some doobies. Nothing makes you more of a man like a government agency stripping you of your dignity, looting/destroying your property, and pointing a gun to your neck while stepping on it. I don't where I would be without them; probably living in some godless commie country.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Caley McKibbin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:55:11 GMT

In some cases privitization is beneficial to the people in that sector because it abolsihes the monopsony buying their type of labour. It just doesn't work for useless university professors.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

DanielMuff — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:42:47 GMT

Laughing Man:

Solid_Choke:
I would take Berkeley over all of those and Claremont second. Why not UCLA?

I want to stay in state. The only school I would go out of state for is Auburn but that is just because the LvMi is there and plus I would get to gab Roderick Long's ear off. I'd probably spend more time in the philosophy department then in the history one if that were true. Anyways graduate school is expensive enough with 5-7 years of instate tuition. I'm coming to realize that Berkeley is just a name only school. It has high school kids who roll around campus sticking people up in broad daylight while they walk to class. It has bizzaro teachers who probably won't give my theories the time of day.

UCLA is in California. It's University of California, Los Angeles. :p Anyway, yeah Berkeley is a public school so it has to accept sub-genius students, unlike MIT. I think this does great harm to Cal's reputation. But I suppose the school you choose depends on what you do with the degree or what your plans/goals are.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

DD5 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:57:40 GMT

GilesStratton:

The thing is, people here complain about how they're slaves etc. Yet, they mainly go around their lives just fine. To use a simple example, in spite of any laws against it they can still find weed with relative ease, kids under 16/18/21 just have to ask somebody old enough to go get them booze and they can drink and smoke all they want. To be honest I think it does an injustice to the people who live under some of the most totalitarian and coercive governments in the world and who are impoverished because of to say that they're "slaves".

I thank my good statist masters everyday that they are so kind and not as mean as those other masters in the more totalitarian States.

I should be grateful for Obama and Bush for I could have lived under Saddam.

Giles, after you finish your degree, how long will it take you to say YES to a job offer at the Fed? 10 seconds, 20 seconds?

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Andrew Cain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:19:55 GMT

Solid_Choke:
I would take Berkeley over all of those and Claremont second. Why not UCLA?

I want to stay in state. The only school I would go out of state for is Auburn but that is just because the LvMi is there and plus I would get to gab Roderick Long's ear off. I'd probably spend more time in the philosophy department then in the history one if that were true. Anyways graduate school is expensive enough with 5-7 years of instate tuition. I'm coming to realize that Berkeley is just a name only school. It has high school kids who roll around campus sticking people up in broad daylight while they walk to class. It has bizzaro teachers who probably won't give my theories the time of day.

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Solid_Choke — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:12:03 GMT

Laughing Man:

Daniel:
Where are you going to apply to now?

Claremont Graduate

UC Davis

UC Irvine

UC Santa Cruz

UC Riverside

I would take Berkeley over all of those and Claremont second. Why not UCLA?

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

Andrew Cain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:01:43 GMT

Daniel:
Where are you going to apply to now?

Claremont Graduate

UC Davis

UC Irvine

UC Santa Cruz

UC Riverside

Re: Why statists hate "privatization"

DanielMuff — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:45:57 GMT

Laughing Man:

I was going to apply to Berkeley for my graduate work...now no thank you.

Where are you going to apply to now?

Truth and Liberty:

She sounds like someone desperately trying to save her job, career and 'industry'. She knows her socialist drivel will not be valued without the state.

This.

MJGreen:

She makes a pretty compelling case for privatization.

Or are we supposed to regard entrepreneurship as a bad thing?

This.

GilesStratton:

It's just not true that statists hate privatization. Plenty of them are only too keen to privatize sectors of the government since it gives them a chance to sell a monopoly title to a rent seeker. Granted, I'm sort of equivocating here, but the point is that more often than not privatization doesn't lead to a more economic use of resources or to a freer market, it's not really something free market advocates should be endorsing uncritically. Look at Russia, it's not much more market oriented now than it was under the Soviets.

That is why I put "privatization" in quotes. I think most of us know that "privatization" is about as free market as a Republican.