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It's not that complicated why libertarianism doesn't work:
Labor costs are too low.
Educational, Health, Housing, and Food expenses are too high.
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Much of the increase in cost is due to inflation caused by the devaluing of the currency due to "printing" more currency because government can't stop its outrageous spending spree. Wages can never keep up with inflation. Wilson created the Federal Reserve and took us off the gold standard. But, the dollar was still tied to gold until Nixon came along and severed the connection completely. That's when inflation really took off. Ever since then, if the government needs more money, they just "print" more of it. It's a hidden tax on all of us.
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In a pure market system on a timeline ends and implosion. There are no customers after awhile. Just masses of angry half-starved people.
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I completely disagree with this. A free market system with little government interference will always survive in the end.
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If libertarian goverment was great -- we would have never left it.
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We didn't leave it, the government stole it from us, starting with Wilson.
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Most of the advancements we are proud of in this country had nothing to do with libertarianism and everything to do with centralized forces organizing group efforts..
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I disagree. Most advancements were done with individuals (or group of individuals) with great ideas, or just accidently discovering something... penicillin anyone? Even with corporations, it all comes down to individuals with ideas. Whether the ideas are viable or not will be sorted out by the free market.
You don't get that with the government. They produce mandates, whether viable or not. Most often, what comes out of governments are failures. Look at the cars from the eastern block back in communist Europe. Those were government planned cars. They were death traps, and polluted like nothing we ever saw in the US.
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The pyramids would never be built by a libertarian system, the telecom systems and the internet would not either.
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The pyramids were built with slave labor. Do you really want that now?
While the internet structure was built by the government, it was the free market that made it the way it is now, well, that is until big tech (i.e. Google, Facebook, Twiiter) get there way and push the upcoming newbies (gab, BitCute, Patreon, etc.) out of the way using big government as there means of doing so.
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Cooperation works better than competition on a macro level.
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I disagree completely