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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Hasn't some libertarian ”intellectual” said that there'd be a marketplace for children in a truly free market?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Murray Rothbard, yes. The guy who coined the term, "anarcho-capitalism."

"the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children".

"the existence of a free baby market will bring such 'neglect' down to a minimum"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I would be very interested to know why they think that would be any better then our current adoption system. You can already give up an infant, and there's a wait list a mile long. What's going to make abusive parents suddenly realize "you know what, I should give up my baby". Because I've known a lot of uh, not great parents who just continue to have them.

To everyone's surprise, abusive pieces of shit don't really care about their victims.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Yeah but they'd care about money, and I assume the idea here is that they literally sell the babies to people who want them. With no restrictions or necessary background checks. I see no way this could possibly backfire and turn into some kind of dystopian hellscape, after all, when has that ever happened under Capitalism? \s

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