I’m borrowing this from someone (was it Taleb?)
But socialism <-> libertarianism is a sliding scale for me, depending on distance.
I’m a total socialist when it comes to family, friends, neighbours.
The further we go from there, the more libertarian I become.
there is a wonderful EconTalk Episode about that!
That's still stupid. I'm a total libertarian with my family because I love them and I don't want to control them. Love doesn't control - it liberates.
Organizations of people under Dunbar Number (~150 or the size of tribes we evolved to live in) don’t need formal governance systems. A hierarchy and rules of the road will naturally evolve and conflicts can be resolved by splitting the group. We still haven’t figured out how to effectively manage masses of people. Anarco-capitalism appears to work, except that it has a large attack surface for leftist ideologies.
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