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They also have a tendency to put capitalism up on a pedestal even though it requires the charging of economic rent. Apparently extracting taxes is a crime but e
by skilesare 12y ago
They also have a tendency to put capitalism up on a pedestal even though it requires the charging of economic rent. Apparently extracting taxes is a crime but extracting economic rent is to be lauded.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThat's why I love that 'cstross quote from [0]. "Libertarianism is like Leninism: a fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density" This holds for other political and economical ideologies as well - they may have some good and important points (that's why they gain followers), but ultimately pure theoretical models rarely work well when applied to the complexities of the real world. One needs to remember that and see places where tradeoffs are needed to be made. [0] - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-wa...