Replying to Avatar Mike Brock

I also believe a lot of people confuse individualism (which I subscribe to) with egoism (which I don't). Classical liberalism is an individualist philosophy, in that it emphasizes the importance of individual rights as the basis for organizing society.

The idea that states and governments are unreconcilable with individual rights, which is argued by anarcho-capitalists, is a bizarre post-war / anti-communist reactionary philosophy that is egoist at its core.
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Lyle Pratt 2y ago

Some people are going to lead and some people are going to follow, as has always been the case. Mimetic desire won’t disappear.

The failure of modern liberal society boils down to the fiction that equality (in outcome) is a thing, much less a thing that should be desired. Self sovereign incentives do away with that fantasy.

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nobody 2y ago

When risk and reward and work and wage recalibrate, we’re back in business.

Participation trophy era over. The window has closed.

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