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> Precisely what americans state you should not do: regulate. Everyone thinks the same until they're screwed over and then they want someone to do something ab
by buran77 2y ago
> Precisely what americans state you should not do: regulate.
Everyone thinks the same until they're screwed over and then they want someone to do something about that. The big misunderstanding is that "regulation" is just the stuff you don't like. In reality it's everywhere the state gets involved. Every rule that the state ever put in place is regulation. Even the little ones. Even the ones that you like.
Computers cannot be held accountable more than a car, or a gun, or an automated assembly line can. That's why you have a human there no matter what, being legally accountable for everything. The human's rank and power defines how much of the risk they are allowed to or must take.
- immibis 2y agoLibertarians love certain regulations - mostly the ones where the government allocates some stuff as "theirs" and uses violence to prevent other people from using it without paying them a fee.
- bitcoin_anon 2y agoPlease go on about the regulations that libertarians love around allocation of stuff.
- dsr_ 2y agoSure, it's called "property" and "contracts".
- bitcoin_anon 2y agoBut these aren’t about the government allocating stuff.
- immibis 2y agoAbsolutely they are.
- bitcoin_anon 2y agoallocate: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose
- immibis 2y agoYep, when the government makes a plan like "5 hotdogs per person per week" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "each 100x100 meter plot to the highest bidder" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "special rights to the creator or their nominee until 70 years after they are dead" that's allocation too.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoNice strawman, but that isn't remotely what libertarians believe.
- pixl97 2y agoHell, even libertarians don't know what they believe.
- Nasrudith 2y agoPlease cite the specific regulations and when they were first passed and last ammended.