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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 14 Oct \ on: Why has humanity not been able to end corruption? AskSN
Most people are corrupt.
People want governments- they need governments- without governments they are weak and vulnerable to any other group that gets organised and develops the capability to seize wealth and territory wherever the opportunity presents itself.
Without government you would be a quivering wreck.
Governments provide the legal framework and security whereby people can invest and produce wealth- without governments its not easy or wise to invest much.
And so governments tax to fund their functioning.
Get over the poor me Libertarian cry baby BS.
Governments are the primary drivers of the wealth of nations.
Governments are the primary drivers of the wealth of nations.
Setting aside the quoted hilarious tautology; most of what you wrote is an overgeneralisation. Modern "government" lumps together lots of different organizations, and part of the neverending effort of participating in politics as a libertarian, rather than just darthing out into the wilderness, is to privatise or "factor apart" the monolithic structures into ones that are both less mutually dependent and easier for individuals to navigate.
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Libertarians were bottle fed neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism was the true beginning of corporate/banker imperatives coming to own and control government.
Neoliberalism was were the bankers took over control of our democracies.
Libertarians are going even further into enabling crony capitalism - they are demonstrably incapable of even engaging in reasoned debate.
Such as your comment above which fails to address let alone refute any of the assertions and arguments I made prior to it...except by attempting to dismiss them as generalisations- yes they are generalisations but that does not logically dismiss them.
There are of course examples of where government can be improved - but that does not dismiss the truth inherent in generalisations above.
Neoliberalism/Libertarians culture of crony capitalism opened the door to China winning the trade war and beginning the end the 500 years of global hegemony western civilisation has enjoyed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uLpICsNTV4
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Thank you for your response!
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