re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What libertarianism purports to do is remove those guardrails which “restrain” the captains of industry from achieving the heights of wealth and power. So what if a few thousand workers die in a preventable industrial accident which wouldn’t have happened if some safety measures were applied that would have cost the industrialist a few extra bucks?

Flowing water can power a mill or irrigate a field. Or it can wipe out the mill and the field. That is why we need to keep it channeled.

One key duty of government is to ensure that the true costs of a product are reflected in the price. The Libertarian/Capitalist model is to allow companies to pocket the profits and then socialize the ensuing follow-up costs downstream.