I guess to me economic equality of citizens is also part of basic equality. I can quibble on how exact the equality needs to be, but people should be qualitativ

I guess to me economic equality of citizens is also part of basic equality. I can quibble on how exact the equality needs to be, but people should be qualitatively equal, and as a very loose lower bound should at least being able to live. The idea that people should monopolize all resources needed to live, to the extent of having 1000x or 10,000x what some of their fellow citizens have, with some of their fellow citizens having no food or shelter, is beyond the pale from my perspective, a weird American aberration. From a Scandinavian perspective, the libertarians and the conservative Christians are equally stone-age American sicknesses, and I perceive both of them as basically enemies. If anything, the libertarians have less excuse for not learning from their defeat, because they were defeated >100 years ago, while the Christians were only defeated ~50 years ago. I agree that political differences are tolerable, but we must be speaking of political differences that respect the opponents' basic right to live. Neither libertarians nor fundamentalist Christians meet that standard. And to the extent that I have American friends who are denied healthcare because of these libertarian fucks, something that doesn't happen in civilized countries, I blame the startup scene for their tolerance of the antisocial libertarian assholes in their midst.