Difference between revisions of "Libertarianism in One Lesson; The Fourth Lesson"
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Oh. That was after the civil war, so I guess these southern libertarians don't remember anything so recent. | Oh. That was after the civil war, so I guess these southern libertarians don't remember anything so recent. | ||
| + | I have heard a lot of people who call themselves "libertarians" say and sagely nod at others’ saying that utility derived from satisfying a taste for discrimination is a proper thing to include in a social welfare function—and they are often the same people who are outraged at counting utility from redistribution, envy, or theft. | ||
| + | Brad DeLong, "A Lazy New Year's Eve Morn on Twitter..." | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
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* All three [[Atlas Shrugged]] films were terrific financial flops. The market has spoken! | * All three [[Atlas Shrugged]] films were terrific financial flops. The market has spoken! | ||
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| + | * Libertarians sneer at the possibility of equality, but conveniently forget that when they say they want equal liberty. | ||
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| + | * One man's liberty is another man's slavery. Often literally: the liberty to own slaves has been a frequent, real world oxymoron. | ||
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| + | * Wealth gains from crony capitalism are wrong and immoral! Which is why we should do absolutely nothing to remove those ill-gotten gains from the crony capitalists. | ||
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| + | * Social contracts are mythical: we never signed one. But the system of property rights is natural, doesn't need a signature, and must never be questioned. | ||
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| + | * A libertarian calling you a 'statist' is like a pedophile calling you an 'adult-fucker'. (Suetonius Jones) | ||
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| + | * You hate statism, yet you live in a state, rely on state defense and police, and are employed by fellow statists. (response to hate capitalism) You hate the state yet don’t see any power dynamic between corporations and people. | ||
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| + | * The two-party system of the USA is a [[Spontaneous Order]], and the Libertarian Party has the nerve to complain about it? | ||
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| + | * Isn't it funny that methodological individualists abandon all pretense of their methodology to denounce government? | ||
== See also: == | == See also: == | ||
