Free Market Forever

Imagine if you have the power to force people to do what you want. Well that kind of pretty powerful right. You can eat in all the expensive restaurant, you can fuck any girls you want. Wow. The problem is it’s too advantageous for you and too detrimental for others. So societies have ways to prevent forces.

There are still many ways.

What is force?

If I threaten someone with a gun to give me his wallet, I am forcing him to give me his wallet. That would get me like what? 20 years in prison.

So we force some people by prohibiting an alternative. In my case, I am prohibiting him from walking away without paying.

Do I need to prohibits all alternatives? No. I do not need to prohibit him to dance. I do not need to prohibit him to cry. I only need to prohibits the popular ones. Namely walking away and screaming.

Say I want to FORCE people to get married. See, sex bring happiness. If people get married, then they obey MY terms. That means they are on my control. If I make a law, anyone not getting married will be put to death, I will be stoned.

But again, there is a fate far worse than death. Extinction. So instead of saying anyone not getting married will be put to death, I would simply say anyone not getting married must go extinct. In other word, I can say something along that you can’t reproduce till you’re married. For example.

Libertarians among us start lowering their spears.

Well I do not need to outright commit genocide against the unmarried. We know that what matter is not that something is not done at all. What matter is we reduce the frequency of things we do not like. So rather that prohibiting reproduction till you’re married, I can prohibit sex before marriage. That one sounds far more familiar isn’t it? After all, sex is the most popular way to reproduce by far.

How do I force things? By prohibiting all alternative. Do I need to prohibit all alternatives? No.

Just the popular ones. I can still legalize those not favored by the market anyway. Through evolution and years of history, I know that males are willing to pay women to have sex. It’s natural. Males don’t get pregnant. So normally they put something up to compensate for their lack of parental investment. Namely cash. So yes, prostitution is the first to go. Polygamy is next. Not having to get pregnant means the market would favor rich smart males mating with many women. That’s it.

Abstinence is still legal. It’s not fun anyway. Or what about women becoming engineers and compete with men? Well those women often will go extinct anyway, and hence it’s legal.

The Taliban is even more creative. Yea, women can’t work. So those women are not “technically” forced to get married, of course. However, the alternatives left are begging or starving. Not a good idea if you have great look and killer body. So many women in Afgan then end up choosing to marry, under Taliban’s term, with males Taliban’s approve. Many shag less males are willing to die to be on the approved list needless to say.

So, “No body forces you to get married” says many people. Yea. There are plenty of alternatives. Religious bigots do not need to prohibit all. Just the fun and popular ones. Like the way they prohibit drugs.

Then what? Is it enough that a  more profitable option exist? No. Most humans are followers. If their IQ is below 120, there is simply no other way. If their IQ is higher, should you follow? Unless you are the wisest smartest people in the world that have extensively study your options, quite often, following the crowd will still be wise.

The way capitalism works is that it’s not enough that a good option exist and somehow people will be productive. The way it works is that productive people are profited, then that fact is relied in credible ways to the rest of us. Then we follow them. The credible information are exactly those that arose your emotion. After all our emotion are fine tuned by evolution to get exited by CREDIBLE info. A man saying he’s making $10k a month is not credible. A man driving a Ferrari is credible.

So rather than prohibiting options, religious bigots can prohibit credible information about sex outside marriage. Hence censorship for porn. In some cases, a student that provide a scientific study explaining that the majority of Indonesians’ teenagers have had sex, got expelled from school.

Libertarians are resistance against fraud. What about faith? If religious bigots say that porn stars cause tsunamis, how do we disprove that?

What about simply withholding crucial information? I wonder how many people will still get married if part of the marriage vows include keep paying alimony after the girl is already riding someone’s else cock?