Can Libertarians even read?
Supposedly this guys is the paragon of their principles but in this book he shits on laissez-faire capitalism. It's not even like he is cryptic about it. He just flat out says it is a terrible idea.
Can Libertarians even read?
Sebastian Long
Jason Bennett
libertarians and sjws are literally the same thing. they both want absolute immunity to do whatever degenerate fag shit they want, but the first group thinks having a CCW makes that possible whereas the other thinks that you need the state to stamp out "wrongthink"
both are corporate slaves and neither care about economics
Xavier Cook
Haha nicely put.
One thing about Libertarians is that they act like economists are on their side. But then when you read said economists you realize they'd laugh in their face.
Sebastian Morris
Libertarians can definitely read but the bulk of their brainpower is directed toward Bitcoin speculation.
Cameron White
Ideological, proselytizing libertarians are the worst.
But I live in New Hampshire, where libertarian ideology has won over both parties. We have no income tax. Our institutions (roads, schools, emergency services), such as they are, are funded by town property taxes. Local elections dictate local budgets, and the state barely doles out money to any social causes, whether it be addiction, mental health services, or socialist causes. To keep itself running it sells liquor, which while not libertarian, keeps it out of my wallet when i have a good year. In spite of all this, our unemployment is rock bottom, and it is probably the best state in America to live in.
So frankly, fuck all 3 or 4 of you. Go move to New York State if you love government intervention one way or the other.
Michael Bennett
I live in Minnesota where we love government intervention and it's heaven here. Some of the best public schools in the country, the best city parks in the country, high quality healthcare, bicycle trails everywhere.
Sebastian Diaz
The book is more "classical liberal" than libertarian. He wants government to be limited to only the absolute minimum (negative externalities, basic safety net, etc.) and not practice more intervention than absolutely necessary. What he has in common with libertarians is that he is against government trying to somehow create equality through redistribution and central planning.
Caleb Brown
Hayek was a neoliberal, he wasn't utopian enough to reject the state, you need a strong state for a stable framework for the optimal functioning of an economic process based on competition and the coordination of economic agents planing through a price mechanism. The state must ensure that society is not completely overwhelmed by the logic of the market but it must also ensure that individuals will identify with micro-enterprises enabling the realization of competitive social order; government must create competition where it doesn't exist.
To get ideas like that accepted you needed to breed a generation of organic intellectuals to capture institutions and gain ideological hegemony e.g. through organizations like the Mont Pelerin Society.
Ryan Ward
The happiest countries in the world are all more 'socialist' than America. So your anecdotal evidence does not really hold water.
Nice try but my points still stand :>
Blake Fisher
That is an incredibly small crossover.
He also explicitly condemns that 'wooden' attitude. So in short, he is an enemy of libertarians while they say he champions their cause.