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I'm subscribed to a wide variety of political subreddits, but usually if I see a post and read the comments and go "yeah that sounds reasonable" I scroll up and the sub is typically r/libertarian. I've got libertarianitus and I'm enjoying it.

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Libertarianism is superficially appealing but the fck everybody I’m not giving shit to help anyone is unsustainable and inevitably leads to extreme concentration of wealth crony capitalism and breakdown of society

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Yeah people describe libertarianism like this but it's not at all what I understand it to be

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Really? I agree with a lot of libertarian views but the concentration of wealth and power seems a fundamental flaw. Would love to know how they address this. Efficient redistribution is needed in my view to tackle extreme outcomes of pure free markets

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There's a lot of things going on in your claims here; can you be very precise about one thing so I can respond to it better?

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How does libertarianism address this inevitable extreme concentration of wealth and power. This then becomes a threat to democracy 2/2

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Libertarianism in general states that you can do anything as long as you don't violate someone else's rights or force them to do stuff. The way the consolidation of power threatens democracy right now is not something libertarians approve of.

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Ideally people could be wealthy without this threatening the integrity of laws. Right now in our system, this isn't the case. If I had to redesign government I'd implement way stricter rules against money+politics, and consider this totally in line with libertarianism.

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Though in general, i don't think there's inherently wrong with consolidation of wealth, as long as the consolidation occurred voluntarily, without the use of force on anybody. A lot of current wealth consolidation takes advantage of lobbied laws, which means force.

5:07 AM · Nov 26, 2019

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Yeah I guess I would say that is an inevitable outcome. That wealth consolidation leads to power consolidation that leads to abuse of power and crony capitalism. The only way to counter is redistribution. Also just don’t like seeing rough sleeping and people without healthcare