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Not all Rand fans live in basements. Larry Ellison is one, and a few other famous names are too. Nothing against your general point about public services though

Not all Rand fans live in basements. Larry Ellison is one, and a few other famous names are too. Nothing against your general point about public services though.

DonHopkins 4y ago
Yet the grown up ones still act like angry spoiled incel teenaged boys who don't know the price of a bar of soap, like Elon Musk as an archetypical example. Which is my point exactly. Anyone who hasn't grown out of being a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian after they've reached puberty and moved out of their mother's basement is suffering from arrested development and a nihilistic lack of empathy for their fellow human beings.
- robertlagrant 4y ago
  The only person angry and foaming at the mouth appears to be you. If you're this aggressive based just on what I said then it's worth considering if you also interpret various other very normal things people say in the worst way possible, and the problem is mostly in your own perception. If so: don't be a libertarian, and get help.
  - DonHopkins 4y ago
    It seems you need to get help to explain what to do after persuasion and appeals to conscience have already failed, if not simply making it too expensive to not innovate with taxes and regulations. As notacoward asked: surely you don't suggest that raw force is better? Or do you have a better and proven solution? Then share it with us! Now go reply to his question above and the others that you're pointedly ignoring (unless you still don't have any answers): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774934
    - robertlagrant 4y ago
      I was replying to this: > Making things very expensive is precisely how to motivate people to innovate. I don't think that is the best way to innovate. The ability to make money is the best way. > that you're pointedly ignoring. I don't really understand the mentality of someone who would write this, as though someone can ignore something in piecemeal asynchronous communication. I also don't understand the archaic phrasing, and while I feel I shouldn't have to say this, but I am not at an 18th century finishing school and you are not my headmistress. Again, don't be a libertarian, and get help. You don't have to do this alone.
      - notacoward 4y ago
        > The ability to make money is the best way. Do you really mean to ignore or dismiss the relationship between "ability to make money" and "things becoming more expensive"? That's not going to work here. Raise your game.
  - flangola7 4y ago
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Not all Rand fans live in basements. Larry Ellison is one, and a few other famous names are too. Nothing against your general point about public services though.

DonHopkins 4y ago

Yet the grown up ones still act like angry spoiled incel teenaged boys who don't know the price of a bar of soap, like Elon Musk as an archetypical example. Which is my point exactly. Anyone who hasn't grown out of being a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian after they've reached puberty and moved out of their mother's basement is suffering from arrested development and a nihilistic lack of empathy for their fellow human beings.

robertlagrant 4y ago
The only person angry and foaming at the mouth appears to be you. If you're this aggressive based just on what I said then it's worth considering if you also interpret various other very normal things people say in the worst way possible, and the problem is mostly in your own perception. If so: don't be a libertarian, and get help.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  It seems you need to get help to explain what to do after persuasion and appeals to conscience have already failed, if not simply making it too expensive to not innovate with taxes and regulations. As notacoward asked: surely you don't suggest that raw force is better? Or do you have a better and proven solution? Then share it with us! Now go reply to his question above and the others that you're pointedly ignoring (unless you still don't have any answers): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774934
  - robertlagrant 4y ago
    I was replying to this: > Making things very expensive is precisely how to motivate people to innovate. I don't think that is the best way to innovate. The ability to make money is the best way. > that you're pointedly ignoring. I don't really understand the mentality of someone who would write this, as though someone can ignore something in piecemeal asynchronous communication. I also don't understand the archaic phrasing, and while I feel I shouldn't have to say this, but I am not at an 18th century finishing school and you are not my headmistress. Again, don't be a libertarian, and get help. You don't have to do this alone.
    - notacoward 4y ago
      > The ability to make money is the best way. Do you really mean to ignore or dismiss the relationship between "ability to make money" and "things becoming more expensive"? That's not going to work here. Raise your game.
- flangola7 4y ago
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