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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey can you explain this? I was recently looking into libertarian they seem to want a smaller gov. Does it just not at all shake out like that?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a book "a libertarian walks into a bear" that examines a real life attempt to do libertarianism. It ends badly, with bears and fires, and the town does markedly worse than the neighboring town that did normal government stuff.

Also, someone pitching "smaller government" is going to need to define what they actually mean and why that's a good thing. Gutting public education, for example, I think would be a very bad thing that someone might pursue in the interest of "smaller government"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Smaller government translates to more freedom for corporations to do what they want and less protection for middle and lower class. They’ll try to justify it by saying it’s best for everybody, but I think it ultimately just mirrors trickle down logic.