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murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails
I like how the solution to a massive, uneducated underclass that has no access to education due to lack of wealth in Jrodenfeld's utopia is to just plop them down in front of the computer and tell them to read Wikipedia.

I'm sure six year olds who don't know how to read will benefit greatly from this magnanimous offer. Wait, how is their family to afford a computer? Internet access? I suppose the free market will sort them out in the end. If a majority of them fall through the cracks and don't get into the charity schools that can only accomodate for a handful of children, there is a use for roving packs of feral children in society after all. Food source, sex slaves, you name it! So it's not all bad.

E: also I'm alive today due to my country's horrible socialized medical scheme. I grind my teeth every day from the bitter knowledge that I owe my life to a filthy socialist healthcare system that is virtually free for anyone who needs it, the shame, the shame.

murphyslaw fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Aug 9, 2014

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murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails

jrodefeld posted:

I would love nothing more than to opt out of all government services.

I hear there are uninhabited islands in the pacific that would suit you just fine. Somalia should also prove uniquely accommodating, provided you have the money. Good! Problem solved.

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails
Libertarians in high positions growing fat from skimming the public coffers isn't corruption in the eyes of other libertarians, it is shrewdness and playing the system for your own benefit. It is a completely separate thing from moochers and parasites like welfare recipients and minorities getting aid from the state, and once in a blue moon playing it to their increased benefit. They deserve all possible scorn, those lazy fucks!!

It's like when you point out that their high priestess Ayn Rand lived generously off welfare during her final years. She wasn't what she herself called a parasite, she was being clever and benefited from the dues owed to her by the state.

She was apparently even noble in taking aid from the very state bureaucracy she hated, because she may have stated that she didn't like doing it. Saintly.

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What makes me chuckle about libertarians and "anarcho-capitalists" is that they are so convinced of their own wisdom, rationality, and how they see the world for What It Really Is (as opposed to us lowly silly Statists) when their entire ideology derives from simplistic fairy tale notions of rational actors always conducting business in complete fairness and amity with each other forever.

What do you mean, the stronger party is trying to weasel out of a contract?? The private arbitration company will surely rule it illegal!! Oh, they were paid off?? Well then I guess they were in the right to break the contract after all, LawCo said so. High-octane purestrain Just World fallacy. Very entertaining.

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