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This page is for assembling another lesson: none of the ideas are in final form. Remember that joke "if public libraries didn't already exist they would strike people as the most outlandish left-wing idea"? Libertarian Party's response: "this, but unironically". Yet for some reason there was a huge movement to build free public libraries in the Gilded Age, lead by that dastardly arch-socialist steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Oh. That was after the civil war, so I guess these southern libertarians don't remember anything so recent. * Government "fiat money" (backed by taxation) is a fraud, whereas BitCoin (backed by waste of electricity, money laundering by the corrupt and images of shiny symbolic coins) is the future and definitely not a bubble. * "Fiat money" is worthless because only gold has real value. But somehow when we pay taxes with this worthless money it is theft. * It is curious the number of libertarians who claim to disdain vast corrupt soulless bureaucracies but who celebrate multinational corporations. ([[Dispatches from Libertopia: An Anthology of Wingnut Chestnuts and Democratizing Remedies|H/T]]) * The joke is that when they're justifying their ideology they embrace the idea that if you don't like it you can quit your job and move, without addressing the fact that you need money to move/live. But when it comes to the same fact for taxation they're stymied. * Socialism will never work because it doesn't account for the greed and selfishness of human nature. But charity and volunteerism can solve any problem that isn't fixed by markets! * Voluntary smoking, even limited by regulations, has a higher death toll than ever communism did; but government is the problem! * Unions donating money to progressive politicians is a cut-and-dry case of corruption and money influencing politics to the detriment of the people. Wealthy shareholders donating untraceable money to PACs in order to assist in the election of conservative politicians, on the other hand, is just smart business. (Hat tip to [https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/a6v341/sss_thread_on_unions/ebyqry0/ Jonruy].) == See also: == * [[Libertarianism in One Lesson (Parody)]]. * [[Libertarianism in One Lesson; The Second Lesson]]. * [[Libertarianism in One Lesson; The Third Lesson]].
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