> ...free to obtain the means to do so. Libertarianism has never argued that liberty means everyone gets a house on the beach. This is the strawman. No one is

> ...free to obtain the means to do so. Libertarianism has never argued that liberty means everyone gets a house on the beach. This is the strawman. No one is suggesting that everyone gets a house on the beach. The problem is that Libertarianism has a naive presentation of coercion strategies. It ignores economic and generational coercion mechanisms, instead focusing on violence (and the government's monopoly on it) as the only form of coercion. This prevents it from achieving the liberty which it promises, except for those who are already wealthy. By seeking to obfuscate and divert attention from other coercion strategies, it disproportionately favors those who wield them to reduce liberty, and so it has a net negative effect on liberty.