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It’s gonna be a very high debt world for a very long time. Individualism is going to get much harder, as you get fewer public services in return for higher taxes, which means more forced mutualism. TANLFL. Lots of free lunches piling up that will need to be paid for.
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It's almost as though all the "individualists" were actually dependent on more socially functional members of the society they claim doesn't exist to survive. Curious!
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The implication was so-called individualism is actually dependent on well-funded public services. I agree. The "sovereign individual" ideology is all about externalizing costs and pretending you aren't dependent on a strong, even authoritarian state to maintain the status quo.
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Not necessarily. Many environments sustain individualism well, not just ones created by well-funded public services. More benign or bountiful natural environments for eg. Individualism and mutualism form a spectrum, and there’s no moral case for one end preaching at the other.