> It's why a lot of young technical-minded people are attracted to it. You need to be quite smart to understand the premises of libertarianism, but simultaneous

> It's why a lot of young technical-minded people are attracted to it. You need to be quite smart to understand the premises of libertarianism, but simultaneously, insufficiently educated in fields like history and economics to grok why it'd be a set of failed ideas in the actual real world. The other thing I’d add to your excellent comment is basically another social science gap (media studies) where it’s easy to read things which provide that quick hit of smug satisfaction and not ask how, for example, Reason has an entire business running stories about excessive government regulation and there are entire groups funded to generate academic-style publications supporting that mission. If you’re a 20 year old techie, you probably spend a lot more time sharing the “look at this idiot thing someone at the EPA did” post than checking the sources to learn what really happened, or that the writer gets a paycheck funded by donations from that industry.