Difference between revisions of "The Short, Simple Dismissal Of Libertarianism"
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* Libertarians lie about the "free market": it is only an academic model. Actual markets differ enormously from the assumptions and behaviors of free market models. | * Libertarians lie about the "free market": it is only an academic model. Actual markets differ enormously from the assumptions and behaviors of free market models. | ||
* Libertarians have inadequate solutions for public goods problems. | * Libertarians have inadequate solutions for public goods problems. | ||
| + | * Libertarians usually deny or dismiss externalities such as climate change, and have no real solution for them. | ||
* Libertarians just assume "the market will provide", even when millennia of history in hundreds of nations shows otherwise. | * Libertarians just assume "the market will provide", even when millennia of history in hundreds of nations shows otherwise. | ||
* Libertarians assume that freak examples of private provision are both desirable and can be extended everywhere. | * Libertarians assume that freak examples of private provision are both desirable and can be extended everywhere. | ||
