Originally Posted by
Jovan Dragisic
This is a weird ideology or whatever it is. Libertarianism started out as a left wing anarchist school, then the Americans co-opted it and turned it into a free market capitalist school, using economic ideas conceived by the Austro-Hungarian nobility at a time when industrialization was destroying the foundations of that particular empire. Not that Austria has done terribly bad with ignoring the von whatever dudes. Mind you, it started getting traction in the US just as it was becoming clear that the next US president will have to go off gold and have the dollar be freely printed as the world's money. I'm all for such things though, I was just never able to figure out who builds and maintains the roads, power lines and such shit. Like, if you do away with he state completely, then sure, communities with economic ties will have no choice but to build and maintain infrastructure, but if you leave it in place? Maybe if you give the infrastructure enough freedom, it will self replicate?