Quote from: iruu on October 07, 2014, 07:24:41 PM

Bitcoin, or just wealth or promise of it you got due to bitcoin?
In a free (libertarian) society, poor and stupid and lazy, or really unfortunate (ie. quadriplegics) people literally starve to death. Sufficient charity to alleviate that for everyone can't exist.

I'm sorry but this is academically and intellectually false. It's not a sin to be economically illiterate but spreading misinformation helps no one.

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So if you think you're in that group (either because you really are, or you just have heavy depression) supporting socialism is the only logical choice.

Well that's a profound jump you've just made. "According to my own rhetoric you should listen to what I say"

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Libertarianism only makes sense if you either can support yourself now or you believe you will be able to without today's government regulations.

I beg your pardon but the current systems exacerbate the problem. Since you are fond of hypotheticals, in a libertarian society you could have exactly the same things the US has now just by virtue of people choosing to pay the exact same people to do the exact same things - but save the bureaucratic overhead. How would the poor starve if less of their money is being taken from them if they already survive now and will have more money coming in? Now that taxes, tariffs and all other manner of BS that inflate prices are gone the floodgates of cheap goods will be open.

Furthermore, the majority of "perks" taxpayers enjoy come from the State level in the US. Federal taxes fun entitlement programs for the old and war. If those entitlement programs truly are solvent then the greedy capitalists would have no problem running a business off the same model. The increased competition would benefit the elderly - but they already paid in right, this is just their money coming back to them now.

Truly, the worst thing that could come out of a libertarian society would be ending up right back where we are now.