"If you don't like it, move to a different country; you implicitly consent by staying here" is an argument I hear a lot from people when I complain about taxes, but is mysteriously absent when I complain about things like the drug war or bad policing
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I disagree, as a historian. Private versions of what are currently government services have been tried, and they failed miserably.
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You mean people giving freely to charities and mutual insurance funds because they decide for themselves that it deserves to be done? If so: It's like communism, it can only possibly work if the people have the mindset to make it work.
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And right now, >2000 years of mercantilism have shaped us to be greedy egoists. That's not a mindset that can make communism work, and that's not a mindset that can make libertarianism work.
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I'd be a lot more inclined to believe there was a valid alternative if someone wrote up a plan, gamed it all out & showed how ppl would/wouldn't take advantage of it. This series tried https://a.co/dhZaNyl but as it went on it became more and more clear that it didn't work.
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Scandinavian social democracy works
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And that solution is?
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On what basis do you believe this?
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So basically “Real” utopian libertarianism has never been tried before? I don’t think humans are built to function in large number near each other without collectivism. Without school or religion the fabric would crumble. Of course collectivism in all arenas is dumb.
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