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Rustmilian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Your points about weak safety nets, underfunded infrastructure, healthcare and education that often leave most people worse off, and corporate harm when oversight is weak are not wrong. The leap is blaming libertarianism as such for harm capitalism can create through its incentives.

Libertarianism is not automatically “no regulation” or “no government checks.” A lot of the harm you describe comes from limitations or additions to the idea as it is practiced, plus how parties structure markets, enforcement, and accountability. If the real target is that those arrangements let corporate power outrun protections, then arguing for better safeguards fits without concluding that the underlying commitment to liberty is stupid.

And you can treat limitationism as a mutually beneficial modification to libertarianism. The idea is to keep individual liberty and market freedom while explicitly adding credible constraints for externalities, power imbalances, and baseline protections so people are not left exposed.

Also, “libertarianism plus minimal governance” is not a uniform package worldwide. Some countries and real parties implement more constraints, different enforcement, and different welfare baselines, so you can’t read one especially dysfunctional American pattern as proof that libertarianism in general is destined to produce these outcomes.

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