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[–] teft@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I’ll do you one better. If you exist you and your family should have their needs met. We have the ability to feed, provide medical care, and house everyone on the planet many times over yet we don’t. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why we don’t.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan 14 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

We should put the psychopaths that can't care about others in a reserve, where they can make their own hellscape, away from normal people.

So we can have a normal society without some insane psychopath arguing about healthcare, because he happens to not need it.

We will see who's society is better

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

We will see who’s society is better

Did you ever read "A libertarian walks into a bear"? It's a non-fiction book about a bunch of libertarians that moved to a small town, and used their new voting bloc to try to bring about their libertarian paradise. It went badly. There were bears.

The author points out how a nearby town that was otherwise very similar. It had prospered during the time libertarians were driving their town into the ground

[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds like a fascinating read lol. I've never heard of that before!

Regardless of ideology, I do find those "let's start our own society" accounts very educational, because everybody thinks they can do it better, but there's a lot of pitfalls and footguns to learn from.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Have a look at this: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

It's about the book, about that town, Grafton. Great read. The book itself is great too.

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