They have some quality control, but I can easily make you a better tasting meal for the same price by going to the grocery store. It's quick, and it gives customers what they want - but it is not quality food.
That doesn't lend itself to any argument. The food is good, safe to eat, and cheap, end of story.
If I call something cheap, I'm saying it's not of very high quality. So thanks for agreeing with me, that McDonalds is not quality food, but cheap food. Ther's nothing wrong with that, but it does highlight the fact that the market will not always go towards producing quality.
Commercials often work on a basic level, beyond direction consciousness - they can trick your body into being hungry, thinking about food, or wanting something, which people then react to. It's a purpose of their tools, and it's successful for the very same reasons you always use to show how great companies are.
Again, that doesnt mean anything to your philosophy. There's nothing wrong with the information they use nor is there anything mysterious or manipulative about it.
How does this mean nothing to my philosophy? I very much believe in market forces, and that companies have incentive to improve their product. The difference is, I don't think this is the only incentive they have, nor the only factor in the room.
I mean, seriously, why do companies spend millions of dollars on advertising that has
nothing to do with their product, if it doesn't work? And I never said mysterious, and what they do is very much manipulative. They're very scientific about it, and the information is out there that it's done. Selling a product can be (depends upon the product) as much about image, if not more so, than about the actual product.
Yet, you probably carry a cell phone around with you that is just that (A friend of mine has an iPhone app, he typed in my phone number, and pinpointed my exact position on Google maps.
Every example you have cited is entirely voluntary on the part of the user. When you sign up for service with any cell phone provider, you usually sign a contract or agree to their terms of service or both. When you open a Facebook account, you agree to their terms of service. If you do not like a service or product or how it functions, you can voluntarily opt out without any negative consequences. Unfortunately due to the way cell phones function, trilateration enables non gps devices to be located by the provider as long as they are within a service area. What you mention on the iphone however requires your device to be running the same app and enabled with a unique device code.
No, my phone wasn't capable of running an app, and he very much did pinpoint my position.
And you're argument just doesn't add up. When people buy a cell phone, they aren't aware that it tracks them. It may be in the contract, somewhere, but people aren't going to understand the jargon, or quite honestly, probably read it. They're in on the act, but that doesn't mean that private corporations aren't collecting massive amounts of data on the American people, data which can be used by someone with the money, data which can be used to breach your privacy.
You ignore what private corporations could do to me if there wasn't the government protecting me.
You get mad at me when I do this to you, so dont do it to me. I am ot arguing that, and neither is mainstream libertarianism. Even in my dream world, the federal government still has a police force and an army to assist with matters of force.
Mainstream libertarianism makes a hooey about taxes being theft and evil, but if you want to have an army and a federal government, you're going to have taxes. The army is the force behind taxation, so if libertarians want to have the army, they have to swallow the bullet about taxing being theft, so that we can move on with the discussion.
because the ideology doesn't accept that humans are assholes, and that humans want things that aren't theirs
Its funny you bring that up because I think the same thing about your ideology. You expect people to be given unlimited power, and only use a little bit of it when logically appropriate.
Lol, I don't expect people to be given unlimited powers at all. I'm a supporter of democracy, specifically constitutional ones, where power is limited, not only in terms of what can actually be done, but how long that power is held. You know, it's funny, when Jobe was around I remember everyone taking a political compass test, and I came up as more libertarian than Jobe. I don't really like the idea of anyone, whether it's a bureaucrat or a businessman, having power over me. Unfortunately, in order to do so, I have to give up some of my liberties, and accept a higher power over me.
If you don't like it, leave society or find one where they don't agree to give up their right to all the money they make in exchange for protection and mutual benefit.
That's the Scheavo version of "if you dont like America, get out". Because the current status quo is not do everything you agree with and tell everyone else to bite the bullet and give up their rights.
By the way, you still have not elaborated on that concept. How do you give up liberty and somehow get more back at the end of the day? If you lose it you lose it and it only gets worse. Benjamin Franklin had a good quote that applies here: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Lol, you're quoting that is rather funny and misplaced. The issue isn't "temporary safety," it's social safety, and it's something Benjamin Franklin clearly supported.
And to answer the question, because what I'm at liberty to do is effected by the social environment I find myself in. I am born and thrown into this world, I do not choose when and where to enter, what kind of education is available to me, what kind of economic opportunities are available to me, etc. In the real world, being without government does not lead to maximum liberty.
I theoretically have the liberty to kill anyone I want, but I give up this liberty to gain cooperation, which brings up things which mean I actually can employ my of my liberties.
Giving up my liberty to
all of my income leads to things like infrastructure, which actually allows me greater liberty of movement. It also leads to public educatnoi, which opens up my career opportunities, and lets me be who I want to be.
It's the social contract, and it's something libertarians are supposed to believe in.