02-08-2019, 06:57 PM
(02-08-2019, 01:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Poor libertarians, like our spammer here. Automation and computers will soon put their punitive work ethic out of business. "Free stuff" "given by the government" will be in vogue again, overcoming the Reaganoid plague. Libertarians base their whole "freedom" propaganda on the idea that we must work for a living. But what if work has to change, as envisioned by the Ted speaker on the new new ideas thread I started? What if a guaranteed basic income puts the guilt of the survival/scarcity-based work ethic off the table, and libertarian conservatives can no longer use the rant about stealing "my" tax money to give to freeloaders, because we will ALL become freeloaders? What if wage guarantees of more money for less hours of work are put in place so machines and trade doesn't put us all out of a job? What if the people see that the owners of the machines and all the wealth don't deserve and did not "earn" all the huge salaries and dividends that they expropriate and hoard and use to wield enormous power over our state and our lives?You should place the spammer on ignore because they're views are pretty much irrelevant. BTW, libertarian minded people don't go around imposing guilt trips on people who disagree with their views or reject their views or those who consider their views as being irrelevant to them. I've never used a guilt trip to establish moral dominance. I've had many blues of many types affiliated with blue groups try to do it with me over the years including some who claimed to be Libertarian believers/followers. As I've mentioned many times, you are free to elect whoever you want to represent your interest and you are free decide whether the American system has been beneficial to you or not and you are free to choose whether you will be ruled or whether you'll be free to make your own decisions or not. However, you aren't free to make those important decisions for me or determine my beliefs and if it takes a war to prove it to the blues then so be it. As an alternative to war, if it takes a period formal financial separation and economic isolation and ideological containment to prove it to the blues then so be it. The American right isn't leaving America or aborting it's kids.
No, "janet" "hiphopper" "dcgal" "nebraska" dude or dudette, whichever you are. No, Classic Xer and Galen. Your libertarian guilt trip is on its way out! And good riddance!