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Entrepreneurship is experimentation

Standuble

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Well, that flies in the face of libertarian chest beating about being self-made ubermenschen and whatnot. Infrastructure? What do they want next? Welfare checks?

I think so. No self respecting libertarian would work for a living.
 

Il Morto Che Parla

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Well, that flies in the face of libertarian chest beating about being self-made ubermenschen and whatnot. Infrastructure? What do they want next? Welfare checks?

They want the government to build infrastructure, and then to abolish the government at some indeterminate point in the future.

But on that logic, how will their self-governing utopia compete with other states which still have a government investing in infrastructure?
 

Standuble

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They want the government to build infrastructure, and then to abolish the government at some indeterminate point in the future.

But on that logic, how will their self-governing utopia compete with other states which still have a government investing in infrastructure?

There is always the Mongol or Hun method. Ravage the place, plunder their gold, rape their women and leave a sea of skulls in their wake. The ordered neighbour is a twisted ruin and the self-governing utopia stays happy for a few years.
 

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There is always the Mongol or Hun method. Ravage the place, plunder their gold, rape their women and leave a sea of skulls in their wake. The ordered neighbour is a twisted ruin and the self-governing utopia stays happy for a few years.

You think people's taxes should pay for an army? damn socialist.
 

Standuble

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You think people's taxes should pay for an army? damn socialist.

Who said anything about a professional army? Just get the population to take up arms, turn their ploughshares into pikes and their trowels into blades. Tell them that gold, spices and perfumes of every fragrance await the ones who charge into battle first.

If anything that's pure capitalism. It's exalting wealth and exploiting morons.
 

Cellmold

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Everything is a balance.

Greed must be kept in check in order to stunt corruption and eventual economic collapse. These issues beget themselves in a cycle as old as human trading systems.

Or we could replace the system with a new one, which will likely never happen.
 
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