Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
I was talking about that being a tenet of Marxist belief, not Libertarian.
It appeared to me you were legitimizing the premise that sharing and equality are desirable.

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The Austrian School (of economics) argues that free markets (and competition) are the best allocators of resources:

https://www.independent.org/students...ay.asp?id=2042

Market prices, he argues, signal to producers and consumers the relative scarcity of resources. They tell producers how to combine resources in the ways that produce the most value for consumers, and tell consumers when they should expand or contract their consumption of various goods and services. Hayek pointed out that the information communicated to market participants through the price system is decentralized, localized, and often inarticulate. This knowledge, he argued, exists only in a divided, diffused form, throughout the members of society. As such, centralized decision makers have no way to access its most important elements.
Those circumstances will never prevail if everyone's afraid of being greedy.

Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
I mainly vote that way to be contrarian, to discharge my "civic duty" of voting so that I can later bitch and whine about things with a clear conscience.
Is that in the social contract I signed? I don't vote at all.