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OK, so a poor child in a libertarian society would only receive care if his parents could afford to pay for it at a private hospital, or if he happened to have
by doomlaser 15y ago
OK, so a poor child in a libertarian society would only receive care if his parents could afford to pay for it at a private hospital, or if he happened to have access to a theoretical charity hospital that a theoretical philanthropist may or may not have chartered.
You can't get around the fact that the basic tenets of libertarianism rank the right for the rich to live in luxury above the right of poor people to obtain basic needs.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoIgnoring your choice of phrasing for the moment, you've still missed half the story there: they also want to remove all the barriers that make it difficult for the poor to become rich, as well as eliminating the existing programs that remove all motivation to want to. (Consider, for instance, the common case where unemployment pays more than getting a job; people have learned how to satisfy the unemployment office without actually trying to get a job. Beware what you incentivize.) Regarding your choice of phrase: "the rich" versus "poor people" makes the former impersonal and the latter "people". Similarly, "live in luxury" versus "basic needs" misses the entire point.
- danssig 15y ago>remove all the barriers that make it difficult for the poor to become rich So... they want to remove barriers to market entry and the overwhelming power of corporations?