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Technically true, I guess, but only in the narrow sense that it is opposite to libertarianism. But this is the kind of freedom (absolute de-regulation) that nu
by uoaei 4y ago
Technically true, I guess, but only in the narrow sense that it is opposite to libertarianism.
But this is the kind of freedom (absolute de-regulation) that nullifies the freedoms of others (agency in the market). Overall the first is more deleterious than the others, and removing it causes far fewer victims and far more upsides.
- KyeRussell 4y agoYep. This is why a certain sort of libertarianism attracts a certain sort of (sheltered, systems-obsessed) engineer type. The run-on consequences and hidden contradictions of libertarianism make the whole thing fall apart, but the definition of the system, in its own language, isn’t aware of itself.
- uoaei 4y agoWhich is ironic considering [complex] systems [like large economies] in the real world are all about nth-order effects. Anyone doing a solely first-order analysis is simply misunderstanding what systems are and can be.