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On libertarianism


Self quote from here:

If your boss’s busi­ness has a posi­tion of eco­no­mic domi­nance over a com­mu­nity (which hap­pens a lot at local and regio­nal level, even if on ave­rage there seems to be enough com­pe­ti­tion), it’s not very dif­fi­cult for them to impose a socia­lly con­ser­va­tive agenda on it on the threat of being barred from your best chance at get­ting a job in the area. If you were bla­cklis­ted by your boss, then asso­cia­ting with you would become dan­ge­rous for all your acquain­tan­ces. You would eit­her cave or leave, and, even­tua­lly, the local society would become toxic for a mino­rity still defen­ding per­so­nal freedoms.

If your boss is allo­wed to min­gle eco­nomy and mora­lity, it’s not hard to see how the free­doms part of liber­ta­ria­nism could get easily rele­ga­ted to a ghetto sta­tus anyw­here, even everyw­here. Peo­ple would start voting con­ser­va­tive govern­ments because a strong sho­wing up of any other party would make the boss sus­pi­cious, and sus­pi­cious peo­ple would be fired. Other peo­ple would really buy into it, and become de facto con­ser­va­ti­ves. Seen this way, the end game would be liber­ta­ria­nism being unwin­ded because the man­date to not inter­fere in morals via eco­no­mic aggres­sion was limi­ted only to the public cor­po­ra­tion, while the pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion was fully allo­wed to enforce the eli­mi­na­tion of per­so­nal freedoms.




Dubitador dice:

Asi es Fran.
La liber­tad, así al tres­bo­li­llo, es la liber­tad de los mejor situa­dos.
Pero es inutil repe­tirlo, fue siem­pre obvio.
Lo es incluso para los neo­li­be­ra­les.
Lo que en retros­pec­tiva asom­bra es que la social­de­mo­cra­cia acep­tara ese plan­tea­miento.
Pro­ba­ble­mente lo aceptó con reser­vas, esto es negan­dose a des­mon­tar rapida y radi­cal­mente el lla­mado Estado del Bie­nes­tar y ha sido ese rema­nente lo que en un pri­mer momento ha impe­dido que la cri­sis resul­tara catas­tro­fica. Sin embargo las elec­cio­nes han colo­cado en los gobier­nos a los neo­li­be­ra­les cuya rece­tas están pro­vo­cando la catas­trofe ini­cial­mente frenada.


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