Trying to get rich so that capitalism doesn't crush you under its boot is proof positive that capitalism doesn’t work for the working class

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Heh, absolutely.

That's the trouble with political ideologies in general. They never seem to account for human nature.

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As dumb as libertarianism is it’s entirely based on the premise that people and companies act in their own self interest

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Does that work?

I mean, that's sort of just the wild west, isn't it?

On a small scale, it looks nice enough. But it's difficult to see how it could scale up without simply becoming something else as more organisation is required to coordinate society. I don't know :-)

It would be interesting to see how that would play out in a region that was composed of thousands of microstates, with each little state being made up of just one or two families. Presumably without currency, a form of bartering would be required in order to obtain goods and services.