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Libertarians can't win for the simple reason they don't understand externalities and coordination problems, i.e. when everyone follows "free market" and what is good for them personally, the whole society fucks itself over very hard, because they can't escape tragedies of commons.

That's one of the reasons I think that those labels are idiotic and a form of secular religions - how about looking at how things actually work (and have worked out; we have plenty of past history to look at), instead of calling oneself a (e.g.) libertarian and saying "yay free market!" hoping that this particular idea is the silver bullet.




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