User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Character Sheet: Malcolm River/@comment-4867780-20161014010956/@comment-26322734-20161015174339

 "So in short, you are promoting a pyramidal society ruled by oligarchies of lucky gifted ?  Isn't zero sum a practical inevitability is a world with limited resources, markets or not ?"



 No. And I'd already explained why the result isn't a pyramidial society ruled by oligarchies. Please refer to my comment where I explain the market principles governing the Coalition's society. An oligarchy would require the exercise of political power and force, which is explicitly impossible because of the Non-Aggression Principle being enforced by the government as a contract, and the powers of private citizens and the powers of the state are explicitly separate. I'd already explained this.



 " If ethics are so much more profitable, why haven't they conquered the real world after all this time ? Humanity is pretty old after all, economy has been around since the beginnings of civilization, and with omnipresent telecommunications nowadays, every businessman in the world should be living by it already."



Because in the free market, force isn't supposed to be exercised. Everything is supposed to be voluntary, and consumer sovereignty is supposed to determine the direction of the market. If, in the free market, force has been used to the detriment of those within the market, then that means the market isn't free in the first place, and some outside entity has distorted the market either in the consumer's or the producer's favor, and that would be the State. Economics shows us that only when the State interferes do structures like monopolies or oligopolies show up, which happens by businesses gaining special privileges by lobbying for them in government, government subsidies, etc. That's why you have businesses getting away with malpractice and not being hamstrung due to blatant violations of contract.



"Actually, nobody was asked anything at all in the first place XD They were just kidnapped by a godlike outsider who felt it was alright to realize his ideal of freedom by violating theirs ^ ^;"



Well, yeah. As I said, Malcolm isn't any better or any worse than Bradley, he's just on the opposite end of the spectrum.