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Libertarianism fails to acknowledge that hunger is a gun to your head.

And who would be holding that gun?

Whoever offers starvation wages knowing there is nothing better out there, like we tried your thing it was called the 19th century, it sucked

Okay, so I’m starving, and somebody offers me a job at $4/hr.

In your mind, the villain of this story is the only person who is offering me anything?

Let alone the amount of jobs created during the industrial revolution by those employers, allowing people to work for something rather than not work for anything.

History. The one way to avoid the stupidity of those who lived before. What happened before the industrial revolution?
People were peasants, could not own anything, and were beholden to a person who might live miles away. No freedom, no personal property, and the only way to improve your circumstances was by becoming a sex worker in times where VD killed people regularly or becoming a thief or a sword for hire.

Capitalism and the industrial revolution aren’t the same thing.  I am not advocating a return to mercantilism.  Pre-capitalism wasn’t socialism, read your fucking history and “sword for hire” lol, bullshit.  Prior to the labor movement living standards for the working class decreased during the industrial revolution.

Also saying that there’s something worse than capitalism (monarchy and mercantilism) and that means capitalism is good is an obvious fallacy.  The existence of Vlad the Impaler doesn’t make Charles Manson a nice guy.

http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/91/1/28

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/hist5011/phelps-brown%20and%20hopkins.pdf

http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Perspective_of_Wages_and_Prices.html?id=pzwOAAAAQAAJ

Fogel, Robert W. (2004). The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80878-2.