Elitist view or rational thing?

[SadisticNature]

Milton Friedman himself said that a free market would require someone to own the air and enforce their rights to it in order to properly charge externalities like pollution. Of course this means someone is fully justified in charging people for breathing and if they don't pay while then the owner just makes them stop breathing, a simple enforcement of property rights.

So the free market quickly becomes the radically corrupt police state.

I'm glad it doesn't exist.

[DuncanONeil]

That sounds silly!

Until I remember that the EPA is regulating CO2. So there is you ownership of air and breathing!

Milton Friedman himself said that a free market would require someone to own the air and enforce their rights to it in order to properly charge externalities like pollution. Of course this means someone is fully justified in charging people for breathing and if they don't pay while then the owner just makes them stop breathing, a simple enforcement of property rights.

So the free market quickly becomes the radically corrupt police state.

I'm glad it doesn't exist.