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A failed socialist state that actually saw many improvements during its collapse into anarchy doesn't seem to help your point.
by s_m_t 9y ago
A failed socialist state that actually saw many improvements during its collapse into anarchy doesn't seem to help your point.
- peatmoss 9y agoOh right, the author in the article isn’t advocating laissez-faire at all. He’s advocating that the underclasses pay the taxes for the state services (such as police) that would keep the state from descending into anarchy. He wants socialism for the rich.
- s_m_t 9y agoSo what does that have to do with Somalia
- peatmoss 9y agoI’m saying that laissez-faire is what Somalia actually is. The author says he advocates laissez-faire, but I’d guess he wouldn’t be happy if he got it. Instead, the author is a hypocrite who just wants rich people left alone, but others very much not left alone. This worldview is typically accompanied by an astonishingly naive accounting of the benefits that one must enjoy from society to attain their position. Objectivism, as espoused by this article’s author and Ayn Rand alike, is a childish and cruel ideology.