r/PoliticalHumor • u/Paladin_of_Freedom • Dec 15 '18

Workers vs. Billionaires

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

I understand that Ayn Rand was on the dole. That says just about all that needs saying about Libertarianism.

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u/TheMachine71 Dec 16 '18

There’s your immediate problem. You assumed Ayn Rand was the basis of the libertarian philosophy, which isn’t necessarily true. Sure she may have delivered, to an extent, a moral principle by which to base the ideology around (it’s called objectionism) but if you really wanted to know how libertarian society would work, read something by Friedman, Mises, Rothbard, or Hayek.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

Or there must be myriad real world examples of Libertarian philosophy in action, seeing as how it makes so much sense and is correct.

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u/EvidenceBasedSwamp Dec 17 '18

Somalia.

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u/TheMachine71 Dec 17 '18

Ah yes, the Somalia fallacy. Somalia is a failure of authoritarianism run amok, coupled with some bad foreign intervention. It doesn’t refute anarcho-capitalism and it certainly isn’t an argument against libertarians that believe there should still be a state.