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Unless the Government controls the real estate market and allocates dwellings by a lottery, the wealthier of society will always live closer to amenities or endowments. Who says they can't afford privatised emergency services? Not only would privatised health care be affordable to even the most miserly dole bludger if the Govenrment deregualted the sector and made significant tax cuts, but public good have been before supported through voluntary taxation/contributions, rather than coercive taxation. "They would be at the mercy of the deregulated and arbitrary whims of their employers, no?" Who on earth would sign a contract with the clause "I shall do your every arbitrary wish...." furthermore, such contracts are not valid as there is no consideration for an unspecified service...as such a service may render the party unable to recive consideration (payment). "In an entirely deregulated society - free market and privatized services - I can't imagine it not descending into a class war." In early post colonial America, many roads were built by private non profit development firms, bonds were sold to the public, and most financing for wars was done on a voluntary basis. The military and open access public transport are undeniably public goods. No class war between the non-slaves. (Slavery obviously not a free market principle). Why would a society with the highest rate of upward mobility have a class war - look at France, the complete oppositie, they really DO have a class war.
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