US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem

Authoritarianism == controlling other people and taking their stuff. Sounds pretty leftist to me.

 

Formal surveys have produced similar results, showing the ratio of liberals to conservatives in the broader field of psychology is 14-to-1.

NO SHAME!!

 

Again, anyone can conduct these studies. That educated people tend not to be conservative does explain a few things mind you.

Let's repeat a fact: there is no link between liberalism and the authoritarian personality.

 

Formal surveys have produced similar results, showing the ratio of liberals to conservatives in the broader field of psychology is 14-to-1.

 

I can see your point now, all you have to do is define 10001 interventions at gunpoint as non authoritarian and you are correct!

 

I have no reason to support liberalism. I'm merely referring to the facts. Psychological testing shows that conservatism goes hand in hand with the authoritarian personality.

I can appreciate that is rather inconvenient, but ignoring the facts will be counter productive.

 

Right. Conservatives like yourself go hand in hand with authoritarianism. Wishing to rule others and take their property. Very authoritarian.

 

I can see your point now, all you have to do is define 10001 interventions in the economy at gunpoint as non authoritarian and you are correct!

 

Again, I'm merely informing you of the scholarly research. Why do you think that research repeatedly confirms conservative authoritarianism?

 

Feel free to provide that imaginary hysterical record of yours.

 

The one where you fallaciously allege that there is a "promise of tiny government" in the Constitution.

 

Kindly refrain from projecting your kneejerk denialism onto others.

 

Wrong!

The Founding Fathers did NOT abolish slavery in the Constitution! Instead they gave it another 2 decades where it could NOT be challenged by a Constitutional Amendment.

The libertarians in this thread do not appear to have any actual subject matter knowledge of the history of the founding of our nation or the content of the Constitution.

 

The record can be seen in the current constitution which was enacted by authoritarians who feared the liberalism and decentralization of the AofC and also wished to profit from the power the constitution would give them.

 

In other words the ACTUAL historical record PROVES you WRONG once again.

 

Nope. Authoritarian centralization. That's what the coup resulted in.

 

Your consistent FAILURE to provide any substantiation for your bogus allegations is harming what little remains of your credibility.

 

Ad hom is not an argument.

 

Then I recommend that you stop using them and start posting ACTUAL FACTS to support your bogus opinions.

Oh wait, you can't because there aren't any!

 

I am identifying what is shameful in capitalism.

Garbage. Land thieves have always appropriated land in its original state, just as soon as it looked like someone else could be stripped of their rights to liberty and made to pay for permission to exercise them.

More garbage. How does his labor erase everyone else's rights to liberty? Labor earns its product -- in the case of farming, the harvest -- not permanent ownership of the location where the product was made. Do you think a caveman producing a hand axe from a deposit of flint somehow gains ownership of the whole deposit? If that were true, our ancestors could certainly never have survived the parasitism of the flint grabbers.

I know the theory, thanks. They can't justify removal of others' rights to liberty by using the land any more than by fencing it.

 

With no understanding of the labour market, that's a clear untruth!

 

Speaking of clear untruths...

 

You have an understanding of the labour market? Please detail that 'understanding'.

 

Labor markets in capitalist economies date from the Enclosures, which threw workers off the lands they had traditionally used to sustain themselves, forcing them to seek employment on whatever terms they could get, or starve to death. Governments since then have intervened through minimum wages, labor standards laws, welfare, etc., etc. to rescue the landless from enslavement by landowners, but have not addressed that basic injustice, which places workers in a disadvantageous position in negotiations with employers.

 

I like your effort. You've put more words here into saying "I don't understand labour markets". Well done! It would be great, mind you, if you actually referred to any relevant labour theory.