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What kind of system is that without all those things? Please explain, I'm curious.
What we had at the beginning of this country for one namely a free market, very minimal government involvement, a place where people had things in common with their neighbors (same race) and as such often invented things without patenting them for the good of mankind (like Ben Franklin) (and like the Open Source community today)
I am not against corporations making profits whatsoever, don't misunderstand, but making profits at the expense of others is wrong.
For example a company which discharges waste into rivers without regard for the people who would swim or fish in the river or long term consequences, sure they make money but at the expense of other people. Like Dr. Paul said recently that if you believe in property rights than you have to be an "environmentalist" because you can't have one person polluting anthers property.
I would also site National Socialism as exemplified by WWII Germany as another of example of a system which was none of the things which I mentioned. The reason I didn't elaborate on this is because of the poop storm which usually follows any mention of NS.
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