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This is what I think when I read about these libertarian paradises people want to build on a huge floating barge in the ocean. Watch how fast they start radioi
by jjeaff 6y ago
This is what I think when I read about these libertarian paradises people want to build on a huge floating barge in the ocean.
Watch how fast they start radioing for the coast guard when the pirates start showing up.
- missedthecue 6y agoI think the libertarians of all people would have an ample supply of munitions. I could see a libertarian offering a pirate safari
- astrange 6y agoThey wouldn't be able to maintain a sewer system or a public health infrastructure though so they'd probably all get cholera.
- webmaven 6y ago> They wouldn't be able to maintain a sewer system or a public health infrastructure though so they'd probably all get cholera. But imagine the market for patent snake-oil medicines that would create! The business opportunities boggle the mind.
- splintercell 6y agoKeep moving the goal posts. All these things can be done (as they are generally done privately). The only thing Libertarians can't do is fight a total war.
- astrange 6y agoYes, they can be paid for by turning to piracy so you don't have to raise taxes. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/771371881 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/771371881
- splintercell 6y agoPiracy can only happen in non-private properties.
- toss1 6y agoor, see how fast the surviving citizenry starts raising a defense budget when the US Coast Guard doesn't show up
- throw123123123 6y agoUSA was created as a "libertarian paradise" with people renouncing citizenship and picking up guns to defend it. It is not what it has become in the last 200 years. Modern society is very hard to revolt like this country was founded, but there are sprouts of it in the crypto community.