How capitalism in the US should work

Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 3 months ago to Economics
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This is how the great experiment in capitalism should work. We let loony/leftist states like California propose really stupid legislation like this then watch as it backfires on them. Then EVERY other state knows that it is a really bad idea to do the same thing. Trial and error that everyone learns from. Then only the ideas proven to work get tried at the NATIONAL scale.
SOURCE URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/california-could-be-on-the-verge-of-a-severe-egg-shortage-and-it-will-affect-the-whole-country/


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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 3 months ago
    how about "laissez-faire" capitalism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i do believe that is how it show work.
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    • Posted by ewv 9 years, 3 months ago
      Yes, that is how it _should_ work. "Trial and error" statism is the Pragmatist unprincipled-on-principle basis of progressivism. It is not a "great experiment in capitalism" and is not a proper principle for guiding state legislation. Neither does it "work" or serve as a guide for national policy.

      Pragmatist progressivism denies the possibility of moral principle as a criterion for political philosophy and policy, and it leaves unspecified the hidden moral criterion that the Pragmatists implicitly use as the standard for what "works". As long collectivism and altruism are accepted as the moral, the states and the national government will keep "experimenting" with statist "tools" to achieve it and will always deny that capitalism and freedom can possibly "work". This isn't about how to produce eggs.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
    I say let them eat cake!

    Oh, yeah, you need eggs for the cake. Nevermind.

    Seriously, if I were an Iowa egg producer, I'd let them go short. Once their egg prices start to skyrocket, they'll rethink their stupid regulations.
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  • Posted by jimslag 9 years, 3 months ago
    It should work that way but there is NO one size fits all solution. Solutions have to be adapted on a case by case analysis. What works in California (does anything there work?) will not necessarily work in North Dakota or Rural New Mexico. Actually what works in Albuquerque does not always work out here on the Rural Eastern High Plains and vice-versa.
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  • Posted by cem4881 9 years, 3 months ago
    But thank heavens I still have the freedom to purchase eggs from free-range chickens. I am perfectly willing to pay 7 dollars per dozen. For the nutrition each egg provides it's still a terrific bargain.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 3 months ago
    Nothing shoud be done on a national scale except, perhaps, border defense.
    States as guided by their sovereign people should decide when anything is desired on a state level.
    Competition in ideas is what causes the cream to rise to the top.
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    • Posted by ewv 9 years, 3 months ago
      "Competition"in statist ideas is not a moral standard and is not basis for a free society. It is the Pragmatist basis of progressivism applied to state government. Statism imposed by states is just as improper as statism imposed by a national government.
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 3 months ago
    It's just a good thing that chickens haven't figure out how to go on strike.

    Reminds me of our first trip to New Zealand, we saw a sign out in the countryside that read, "Free Range Eggs". My wife said , "I wonder why they're giving them away?" I'm not sure if she was kidding or not, or perhaps I just don't wish to remember. It was a long time ago. I think she was having a blonde moment.
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  • Posted by BradSnipes1 9 years, 3 months ago
    True Capitalism does not exist anymore.
    What we have is "Crony Capitalism". Our economy is controlled and manipulated by the government and its' fiat currency.
    Liberals obviously do not learn from their mistakes.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 3 months ago
    If cage-free eggs are that much more nutritive, this could change the way the country produces eggs. But I'd hate to see that happen from some government involvement--sets a bad precedent.
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    • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 3 months ago
      i watched on i think the history channel an hour documentary about eggs. according to science the nutritional value of a chicken running around in your backyard and one from an egg farm are exactly the same.
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