PreDeadMan

I have to say in my experience I've had a few "fwb". Now I'm 30 years old and the current girl i'm seeing now I met on a dating website and I feel at this point in my life it's time to settle down and take things much more serious. I've developed an emotional connection with her she is 7 years older than me (but I don't mind) we have very similar interests and we text almost every day. We've hung out a bunch of times I've taken her on a few dates and such. I want to propose to her to be my girlfriend soon (funny enough I've never actually had a girlfriend just friends with benefits) It seems after my weight loss 1 year I went from 329 to low to mid 170's more women have been interested in me. That really boosted my confidence. I feel very envious of my friends on facebook who have girlfriends and are getting married, their girlfriend pregnant etc..... Yeah so that's my situation.

The discussion still is going on I thought we were going to close this crap out ::sighs:: I suffered through like 1 hour of the what if scenarios in a stateless society it's frustrating I did mention at one point I have no idea what will happen in the future nobody can predict it there are millions of minds that will solve complex social problems I'm not the central planner that will solve everything because that would be an argument for a dictatorship.

it is frustrating but... eh.... It's a good arguing exercise I guess I'm taking what I learned from various podcasters, authors, throughout the years and seeing how well I fair on the social medias.

Thank you all so much for your input! I greatly appreciate it and going forward I believe I will continue as I usually do with arguments from morality. There is a contradiction in his rant he admits government is slavery but then later on in his rant he argues for a minimum wage which is the initiation of force against peaceful people voluntarily negotiating for a wage. I took the bait and was taking questions left and right from like 3 statists I think I've managed to use my matrix sophist dodging skills and I have to say in my honest opinion I did fairly well lol. If anyone wants to see the thread it's right here tell me if you can see it you can literally see EVERYTHING typed from everyone. My name is Devin in the thread. https://www.facebook.com/joseph.boros/posts/10205887828617599?comment_id=10205898273998727&notif_t=feed_comment_reply

Hello, I'm having a discussion with people on a facebook thread regarding capitalism. I'm having a little trouble responding to this claim. "True communism had nothing to do with soviet russia. People aren't given the same opportunities in capitalism. Government and monetary systems are a form social slavery. White privledge is real. Competitive capitalism is a stage in capitalism that no longer exists. While I like Stefan molyneux blaming statists or statism for the sole reason for "crony capitalism" is false. Capitalism forces concentration of resources and capital, inevitably, there is no such thing as voluntarily participating in the market system. The only reason why public education exists is to uphold the status quo. Science and technology advances were possible before capitalism... But some advances have been slowed or quickened by the profit motive. Capitalism doesn't make a human work better or harder... Macroscopicly it trains individuals to do simple minded tasks efficiently. It stiffles human creativity. Oh lastly and probably most important..... Human well being and a healthy economy is tied to purchasing power within a capitalist system, so raise the f***ing minimum wage... Why, because .001%, 400 people OWN half of the wealth in the US, not only that but they save cash/capital to excess because they can't spend it all. The US economy is 70% consumer spending... Raise the f***ing minimum wage. Ohhh and... Because of capitalism women were forced to work, and working any job should not be what makes anyone who they are." I'm just curious if people on here could come up with a cogent response to that lol. Thanks for looking!

Well I think the argument from morality is it's immoral for the government to point guns at business owners to tell them what salary rate they should HAVE to pay their employees. Not everyone's labor is worth the minimum wage therefore the existence of minimum wage laws would make people unemployed if their labor is not worth the current minimum wage. The government is essentially artificially inflating this one size fits all wage salary sort of like the federal reserve does with interest rates. Just look at my discussion with this guy the very first thing he typed was a marxist type thing "well if one person collects all the wealth while those who work for them barely make enough to survive there's a word for that.... its slavery". He doesn't understand that the relationship between the employer and the employee is voluntary and they can peacefully negotiate wages if the minimum wage laws didn't exist that is. I don't think he realizes he advocates for marxism since he made the argument that the business owner keeps all the wealth and the workers get scraps that aren't enough to survive lol.

The Advocate guy is the advocate of the minimum wage. I'm Devin.....Can someone evaluate this we aren't finished yet but I want to know if I make a compelling case. I welcome all criticisms. Every time I post an anti minimum wage meme he responds to it lol. Advocate: well if one person collects all the wealth while those who work for them barely make enough to survive there's a word for that.... its slavery 1 hr · Like Devin W Congema Nobody is forced to work for "x" person they are free to work for any other person providing they have the skills to do so. They can also start their own business providing the government gets out of the way so the cost of entry to start up the business isn't bombarded with lots of regulations and fees and licenses that stifles the lower income people from competing in the marketplace. Slavery is being forced by the threat of violence to give up a percentage of the fruits of your labor to a violent and coercive entity called the government. The relationship between the boss and the worker is purely voluntary. The boss and worker can negotiate wages the boss isn't sticking a gun to people's heads and forcing them to work for him/her. 1 hr · Like Advocate: ah no but since all employment is at will... you have a choice between working for unfair wages and such or not working at all... hence why so many people stay on welfare.... bc they make more... a lot of these are skilled workers who have no other course of action due to economic downturn..... thats why unions are needed 1 hr · Like Advocate: and maybe not a literal gun but all they have to do is blackball you.... the truth behind the economics in this country is a giant conspiracy 1 hr · Like Devin W Congema Who determines if a wage is unfair or not? What if someone's labor isn't worth a "living wage" as the left calls it. I believe the left creates these emotional words "living wage", "unfair wage" as a way to try and use violence to get what they want by going to the government to implement a one size fits all law. If your solution to a problem is a loaded gun pointed at peaceful people ... unfortunately it's not a moral solution. Welfare is also another problem stealing is never a moral solution to a problem. Unfortunately the government stands in the way of letting free and voluntary people solve problems. What incentive does the government have to let people solve their own problems and make people realize it doesn't need it? They indoctrinate people in their schools that they need it. Just think if coca cola was running education they would have the ceos on the wall instead of presidents and saying how great coca cola is and without it everyone would be worse off. 49 mins · Like Advocate: actually the term living wage was including in the original minimum wage laws.... and it is stated as a wage where one can meet all basic needs comfortably.... 49 mins · Like Advocate: minimum wage was always intended to be a living wage 48 mins · Like Devin W Congema Everyone's needs are different from each other. Everyone also has different lifestyles. If you can't afford a lifestyle unfortunately you have to downsize or...work harder, another job, find other means of capital to afford it. I don;t think it's fair if you advocate freedom to punish a business owner because that is what these laws do they force the business owner to pay someone "X" dollars if someone's labor isn't worth a minimum wage then they are unemployed. There's unintended consequences when you pass laws which is the gun in the room behind government. Every law is a loaded gun if you don't obey the laws that they make up you will be aggressed against. Desperate people who want a job would work for under the minimum wage but "legally" speaking they can';t do that because a bunch of government thugs will force the business owner to comply EVEN IF both the boss and the worker voluntarily agreed. Nothing good can ever come out of pointing guns at people which is what laws are. 13 mins · Like Advocate: im not talking about lifestyles im talking about being able to afford food and a place to live and a way to and from work etc.... 12 mins · Like Devin W Congema ok so you're talking about just being able to afford the basic necessities to survive. so....once again can there be voluntary interactions with boss and potential worker without the guns of government coming down on peaceful people...? 10 mins · Like Advocate: there could be but there wasnt.... people were being forced to work for less then enough to live or eat.... thats why the law had to be put into place..... literally..... 9 mins · Like Devin W Congema if i'm the owner of a company and my crew is doing very well for me I would want to keep that crew so they wouldn't go to another place to work. I would have to treat them good and give them a raise every now and then so they wouldn't work somewhere else. Good work ethics are going to eventually get rewarded. A person could shop around so to speak for different jobs from within their skill set to see what pays the best wage.

Here is a debate between Stephan Kinsella and Jan Helfeld on Limited Government (Helfeld) Vs No Government(Kinsella) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOf1qKk0r84&list=UUhAftdPvwp_dHsr0eSOwb_g

damn so they better ban knives so there are no more stabbings..... wait the government is killing people overseas ban the government..... BY george i've got it! =p

I believe that a person who is addicted to any drug be it the so called "legal" ones (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, etc...) or the so called "illegal" ones (heroin, pcp, marijuana. lsd, etc...) is trivial if they are not initiating force against anyone or their property. Once he/she initiates force against anyone or their property then it is immoral on or off the drug. Certainly I'd like to see people see things through sober eyes rather than be caught up in drug addiction.

I'd like to add that I bought 1 bitcoin over a week ago for 77 dollars. The current price of 1 Bitcoin is valued at 152 dollars. I wish i would have purchased a few of them for the 77 dollar price.

I would recommend Murray Rothbard's book entitled " The Ethics of Liberty". For an economics book Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lessons is a very good book.