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Socialism is not a great ideology if it's applied indiscriminately, but at least it has useful real world applications in some areas. Libertarianism on the oth
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
Socialism is not a great ideology if it's applied indiscriminately, but at least it has useful real world applications in some areas.
Libertarianism on the other hand is hardly even an ideology, but based on the ill-conceived notion that if we purposely make no collective effort to have a better society, it will somehow magically fall into place for us.
If libertarianism was a software project methodology, it would be the one where you just lock a bunch of programmers into an office with some computers and let them fend for themselves.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago> just lock a bunch of programmers into an office with some computers and let them fend for themselves. Bad example. This is how just about every technical breakthrough in the industry has happened.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoRight I forgot to mention all of the programmers have to be sociopaths with no common goal whatsoever.
- vxNsr 4y ago> Socialism is not a great ideology if it's applied indiscriminately, but at least it has useful real world applications in some areas. This is literally what I said and is also true for libertarianism, your false analogy notwithstanding.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIt is not true for libertarianism simply because it is far too enamoured with the Smithian ideal of the self-interested rational actor. While this has been a useful model in economics, it is not an actual description of the world, which economics has had to come to terms with as a field. That's why libertarian ideals only makes sense in fantasy land and don't map onto the world. Most people are not acting only in self interest.