Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

I posted this on r/libertarian and while 98.5% of the comments were positive or constructive, the one I remember the most is the one that called my concerns childish and me childish and dumb. It's tragic that the few negative interactions overshadow the many positive.

Thats not free market at all. Liberty and libertarianism is based off the free market. Which is why left libertarianism isn't a real thing. At all.

I agree for the most part, but left-libertarianism is possible if its always precursored by volunteerism. It plays on the bet that people gain a high amount of utility from giving.

*Everything* should be voluntary. That’s the flaw in the “free market” point above yours. *We* are “the market” and to be a free market, we must be able to enter or leave the marketplace at will. 1/

That means you not only need competition in the marketplace, but you have to be able to say “no” to *all* of the options and leave the marketplace. If you can’t leave, you’re a captive market, not a free market. 2/

“Free market” as used by right-wing Libertarians actually means “laissez-faire” capitalism. They aren’t the same things. If you’re diagnosed with cancer, and the hospital says “that’ll be $500,000 or you die” you’re a captive market. And that is theft. 3/