1/ I've read everything written about State Capacity Libertarianism with an open mind ... and I'm not remotely convinced. The core axiom makes sense. "We need government empowered to achieve good liberty-producing things for people". HOWEVER >>>https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1238097103177551874 …
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3/ CONCLUSION: we need to take some of the limits and safeguards off of government, so that it can do more. Then we close our eyes, pray really hard, and hope for the best.
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4/ Libertarians have been arguing at a META level, about incentives and Hayekian knowledge problems, and irrational voters and bad feedback loops for DECADES. "State Capacity Libertarianism" ... just IGNORES all of that, as far as I can tell. "We want good things to happen"
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5/ Were the problems with the CDC and FDA caused because those organizations didn't have enough CAPACITY? Was there some limitation on their legal ability to do things? ...or was the Charlie Foxtrot because of their internal culture of ass-covering, promoting risk-averse etc?
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6/ The reason that I have almost entirely checked out of politics over the last decade is that both teams chant about the magic results they want to happen. "Everyone should have great housing and healthcare!" "Everyone should have clean safe communities with no bad ideas!"
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7/ 99% of people just chant about what they want to have as a result. I find this entirely tedious. It is interesting to think about incentives and mechanisms. State Capacity Libertarianism discussion is in the 99%. "Everyone should have a well functioning gov that works!"
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8/ well, OK, wonderful, guys. well functioning government that does the right and doesn't crush my rights sounds great. but what's your PLAN ? how do you ACHIEVE that ? how does this system resist entryism, regulatory capture, empire builders, and all the rest?
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@tylercowen and that crowd are all very smart. So if they have any ideas about the meta level of State Capacity Libertarianism, I'd like to hear them. Until then, SCL object-level ideas are just as boring as object-level normie-con or normie-prog ideas.Show this thread - End of conversation
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