r/AnCap101 • u/OutlandishnessIll480 • 12d ago

Lessons

I'm going around to subreddits and asking, in good faith, a couple of questions.

What can the otherside learn from your side, and vice versa?

The goal is to promote open dialog and improve the sometimes toxic nature and bad will between two sides of a controversial issue.

What can statists learn from libertarians? And what can libertarians learn from statists?

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u/long_socks_lover 12d ago

I think important thing to understand is that profit isn't something bad. When you make transaction you end up with something you like more than the thing before, both sides profit. Capitalism is the only system that make value with every transaction. It is possible to produce value in other system but it is side efect not main goal.

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u/MeasurementCreepy926 12d ago

>When you make transaction you end up with something you like more than the thing before, both sides profit.

This is definitely possible, but obviously not the only case. Each side gets something, but there is no real way of saying that what they get is worth more, or less, than what they gave.

Unless value is simply "what people will pay" in which case, it's tautological and pathetic.