So much to learn... The good news is that you're smart and you'll eventually realize how much you don't know you don't know. It's just painful to watch. And painful for you as you rhetorically (and hopefully not literally) get your ass kicked for quoting Friedman as if he was some sort of god. Good luck, you'll figure it out at some point and like me you'll be a little sheepish about your so smart but oh so naive prior self.
I think you should've blocked NeoTrader after writing this post. It's obvious he's basing everything on what this one person, Milton Friedman wrote without actually appreciating the situation in real life. "The high-level bureaucrats who have been assigned these functions cannot imagine that the reports they write or receive, the meetings they attend, the lengthy discussions they hold with other important people, the rules and regulations they issue—that all these are the problem rather than the solution." Like you said, governmental policies are very complicated in that it impacts multiple parities that very often have conflicting interests. How do you make a policy to create a solution that will satisfy everybody who all want different things? It's not like that people enjoy attending meetings and have lengthy discussions it's because they are needed to find what the exact problems are and where the crux of the issue is. You think they find that just in five minutes without listening to all the parties involved and have vested interests? Well we actually have now somebody in the White House who does just that, as soon as he sees a problem, he just puts in a one-sided solution aimed at just this one problem ignoring of all the other side-effects and impact that's going to ricochet and ripple to other areas. Look how that's turning out? I have a LOT of respect for Milton Friedman but I don't know if it's because NeoTrader's quoting Friedman out of context, but I don't agree wholly with what Milton Friedman is saying here. I mean I don't want a politician who just talks and no action but I don't want a do-er who does all the action so hastily without thorough thinking-through and end up have to go back and correct and backtrack what was done all the time.
You really don't have any clue how Pirate bay works and what the difference is with the way blockchain works, do you? Apples compared with oranges.
Just another pathetic evasion from the subject on your part... Not that it surprises me... You just keep telling yourself whatever you want... I simply mentioned facts. And I didn't mention only Friedman... I mentioned Thomas Sowell, Friedrick Hayek.. But there are many more.. All older and wiser than you...(Which is just one more proof that your constant argument that "I`m young and have a lot to learn" is nonsense(again, you don't know anything about me)... And my ideas are the same as theirs... The "like a god" part are your words. I simply quoted Friedman. And he was no God, he was simply an ordinary guy who chose to see through bullshit and use reason and logic to see things. Just as the other people I mentioned. What these people wrote is true regardless of interpretation. It is simply fact, and the examples I mentioned in my last post are simply a few examples used by them to show this reality. You are simply incapable of argueing with facts and logic... You just keep avoiding my arguments based on these two things(like my last post) and keep repeating the same shit over and over again(always personal comments, worthless opinions, with no substance). As if simply repeating to yourself that you're right, makes you actually right, despite the overwhelming lack of evidence for this. But, as I said, no surprise there. I's the only way people like you can live... Just keep lying to oneself and avoiding reality. Oh well.. Makes no difference to me... But next time you see one of my posts, instead of trying to comment on it with your bullshit, I suggest simply ignoring it... But if you choose to comment, fine by me as well... If you want to embarass yourself again, I have no problem with that. It's just a suggestion, after all, live in your little fantasy world with your little bureaucrat buddies...
I'm not basing anything on Milton Friedman.. I quoted other people and I can quote more, if you want. MY point by quoting this, is simply that the argument that any personal factor of mine(like age, for example) has anything to do with my opinions is bullshit, since Milton Friedman and the others were very old people. He died at 94 defending these ideas and Sowell, for example, still lives and still defends them. How is this out of context? He was criticizing the bureaucrats that constantly think that their policies are important, when in reality, they are the problem. And that these people convince themselves that they are essential, when in reality each regulation they pass simply makes things worse. And to back that, he and the other people I mentioned have countless REAL examples of this. The ideal is neither... The closest to an ideal and a real existing possibility today are politicians like Ron and Rand Paul, who want to actually do something: effectively make government do less, give back a lot of the freedom that was taken away from people and make government get out of the way of people's lives.
Uhh, one keeps moving from country to country as they shut them down because their tracker is centralized, while the other is everywhere? Much like bit torrent which is also decentralized and makes the pirate Bay shut downs futile or preventing other clones from replacing it. It's obvious, YOU don't know how the pirate Bay operates.
100% pure capitalism with everything decided by the market forces is not perfect either. There are things that won't be righted by market forces; governmental interventions and regulations are needed in some cases. There just needs to be a happy medium between complete governmental management and complete laissez-faire.
I never said otherwise...(Even though there is a case for complete laissez-faire in the book The Machinery of Freedom, by David Friedman, if you're interested). But "policy making" is not a government function. Every attempt to do it will not bring any benefit and will only do harm and cut people's freedom. Again, the same people I mentioned defended that government had indeed very important, but restrict functions: national defense and protect the individual(with a justice system that enforces contracts voluntarily signed between two parts and protecting the individual from use of force by others). These are the only functions a government should have, because they can't be self-regulated in a free market like everything else. So government becomes a "necessary evil" for these. Anything further than this and unnecessary problems begin.(Again, this is interestingly questioned in the book I mentioned, but there is at least indeed a case for government here.) The US Constitution was based on this... That's why it became the richest and most powerful country in history... And all the problems increased as they gradually departed from that and went in the opposite direction. It wasn't perfect, because there is nothing perfect in this world. But it was and still is the best option available.
Policy-making IS the government's way to intervene in the free market to make sure nobody is left behind. US constitution is not enough; it just provided a framework of how we want the society to be but governmental policies is still needed in many ways to fill in the details sorta speak to ensure that everybody's interests and well-being is looked after in light of the free market. Of course the government is not perfect; it is flawed in many ways yes but that's why there is checks and balances. The government is not self-regulated; it is regulated by us people; it answers to us: It is For the People, By the People, Of the People.