re: #120 The Ghost of a Flea

I don’t trust libertarians talking about freedom.

It always seem to come down to the freedom of those with purchasing power to do as they please. And if you don’t have the buy-in, you don’t get the same freedoms.

Hence why dudebros often end up in developing nations with strong oligarchies (and often a healthy dollop of racial division that coincidentally matches the shape of the oligarchy) while preaching about the liberties taken by the US and Europe.

The trouble I have with libertarianism is it deals in absolutes. No desire to look at the big picture. A big premise of Von Mises style economics is to focus on theory at the expense of real life data. So ideology criticisms aside, I have a big problem with how they approach things in principle before I even look at ideology.