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Musk, Thiel and Andreessen are not liberal or libertarian, they are all conservative. They are not proponents of freedom, they all value authority above everyth
by js8 3y ago
Musk, Thiel and Andreessen are not liberal or libertarian, they are all conservative. They are not proponents of freedom, they all value authority above everything. Look at how they run their companies - on top-down authority. Somebody who is truly (classical) liberal would have no employees and contracted everything, because that way you also maximize other people's freedom.
- morelisp 3y agoThey're the same picture.
- jfengel 3y agoThey're not supposed to be. But it's certainly true that the "libertarians" one hears most from are very concerned about their own liberty and actively oppose that of others. It's almost a perfect representation of the aphorism about those the law protects but does not bind, versus those the law binds but does not protect.
- backendanon 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism I searched that page for "oppos" and could not find anywhere it suggested or stated that libertarians "actively oppose [liberty] of others". Your assertion seems to be very antithetical to the very views that libertarians hold dearly.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoIt's all in the outcomes. You want to own a road, charge for travel over it? Who's liberties are being supported there? Libertarians want to gate-keep and rent-take everything for profit. That's their entire thesis.
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