Quote from: capoeira on December 13, 2013, 01:33:43 PM

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http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-libertarian-paradise-would-be-hell-on-earth-2013-12

Quote from: Business Insider

So the Bitcoin experience gives us a glimpse of Libertarian paradise: What life would be like with as little government interference as possible, in a market free of burdensome laws and taxes.

Unfortunately, that experience looks like a total nightmare. It's characterized by radical instability, chaos, the rise of a boss-class of criminals who assassinate people they don't like, and a mass handover of wealth to a minority even smaller than the 1% that currently lauds it in the United States.

If Bitcoin was a country Bitcoinistan? it would be like Somalia.

Somalia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGkTRnocZI

the reason why Somalia isn't Anarchy/Libertirism (like the "model") is the same as why Cuba isn't socialism: because they are stupid utopias which ignore totaly the nature of humans.

this is the point i've tried to make, but anarchists always retort with a "but government is that way too!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

yes, this is somewhat a problem i experienced at a meetup.. it was a bitcoin/libertarian group. i got along with them all, but i also noticed that my ideology did not exactly fit with theirs. i agreed with them on most things, but i couldn't agree on their one-size-fits-all approach.. i didn't want to argue with anyone though, since that's what i did the first time and it achieved nothing.