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the problem is when you do this for a few hundred years, you go way past the optimal regulatory environment. If applied correctly, I believe libertarianism is
by sixQuarks 6y ago
the problem is when you do this for a few hundred years, you go way past the optimal regulatory environment.
If applied correctly, I believe libertarianism is the ideal form of government. The problem of course is that no form of government can be applied correctly due to human greed and corruption, which would thus make libertarianism a terrible choice.
For example, without regulatory agencies, consumers would have to rely on publications such as Consumer Reports to determine which products/services are free of dangerous defects, etc.
The problem is information overload and the lack of critical thinking skills among the general population. Just look at the ridiculous things large swaths of the population believes today, even though we have more access to information than ever. What I'm saying is it would be very easy to game the system in a libertarian society.
Therefore, the best form of government in the real world may be a benevolent dictatorship.
- weare138 6y ago>Therefore, the best form of government in the real world may be a benevolent dictatorship. So what happens when your dictator changes their mind? What ensures they stay 'benevolent' and what recourse do you have when they don't? "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -John Dalberg
- sixQuarks 6y agoThen it goes from best to worst
- pasabagi 6y agoWhich is why dictatorship is the absolutely worst form of government. If dictators were always awful, then at least their nations would be united against them. The better the dictator, the more power they and legitimacy they accrue, the more intense the civil war when they are succeeded by a bad dictator.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Therefore, the best form of government in the real world may be a benevolent dictatorship. “Dictatorship” is a form of government. “Benevolent” is a hoped-for personal characteristic that is separate from the form of government.