Libertarianism and Robber Barons

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What it comes down to, in my opinion, is that libertarianism could work... IF we saw an extended period of wealth equalization or redistribution. You can't have a free market when trillions of dollars, earned under statism, are allowed to exert themselves upon it. The lower and middle classes need to be raised up dramatically, and the power of wealth drastically reduced, before it would become possible... and that requires decidedly non-libertarian action, such as implementing maximum ratio.

Finally we are getting into the productive part of the discussion, now that slandering my intentions has been dropped.

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Good bickering with you dude.

You still owe me a beer.

[The Dharma Bum]

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To be clear, I am coming from the perspective of a person who accepts that private property should be abolished. I believe all individuals have a right to an equitable result from the collective productive capacity of thousands of years of human action.

Also, to further this end, I think money should be abolished.

[The Dharma Bum]

Also, I would like to add I think you are on the right track because you seem to wish to ferret out all methods by which what you consider a reasonable amount of individual autonomy can be abrogated and all avenues to wealth(misallocation of the material resource) and power (misallocation of the human resource) do have this exact effect.

Man can be ruled by things other than the state. I do agree with you about that.

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Ok, Dharma has said a few things that are intriguing.

Ex, as close as we are, you would think we could have had that beer and others as well. since we got our own Lee Valley tools, I only go near London during turkey season, which is coming up soon. So who knows?

Dharma, how would you abolish money without a state? How would you conduct commerce without a common metric for currency?

Yeah, humanity can be ruled by anything it worships or values. Government should not be among those things.