/lit/ - Literature

>>12224321
>''I as a libertarian''
Stopped reading right there.

lolbertarians need to be drenched in white phosphorus

>>10896583
Show us your soft side

>>10058607
I grew up having to take care of my sick parents while all my friends had disposable income, upward mobility, and a rich social life. They were able to spit on the idea of welfare from a safe distance as their parents paid for their college. They enjoyed hereditary welfare, but would never call it such. That's all it is. Consolidation of power. The poors can't have access to the same means of upward mobility as me, so call it "too expensive" and insist they're stealing from you, and that safety nets and regulation aren't an integral part of every modern society.


Yeah. It's too bad people only apply this logic to the poor, ignore when it's for illness or natural disaster (and not """failure""" (every fucking time with the meritocracy horse shit)) and REALLY ignore when it's corporate welfare, that is, corporate welfare in the form of bailouts, subsidies, small fines for highly profitable crimes, comfortable prisons for the rich, etc. They'll defend untaxed inheritance without blinking their eye, leaving a million dollars to their kid, while insisting such assistance "breeds dependence" when it's the poor people receiving a much smaller form of it, after having jumped through countless bureaucratic hoops to prove they """deserve it.""" If worse comes to worse, just invoke Reagan's "welfare queen and strapping young buck" stereotype which we all know is a dog whistle for some imagined loathsome black people.

Then there's the typical libertarian right's complete ignorance on the environment, the accumulation of capital, and the accumulation of weaponry. They actually believe a society where companies are totally deregulated and can just do shit like pour industrial waste into rivers with impunity will be sustainable because we'll just innovate our way out of it. They don't see how a libertarian right society decays into an authoritarian right society as the unsustainability of deregulated multinational firms causes them to accumulate power until they are little more than specialized mobile states. They don't see how an anarcho-capitalist haven would just be place for corrupt companies to go to escape the laws and regulations of their own home nations, just to accumulate some arbitrary amount of power needed to be able to stand up to the unincorporated masses. The primary directive of public and private sector balance of power is the goal of the reasonable people in power. Balance of power between public and private sector has become even more important than balance between branches of government. But sure. Deregulate everything. Provide no assistance to poor people in need. Every bit as deluded and utopian as other political outlooks.