That's one view. Another view is that any functioning economy is,
by necessity, already largely libertarian.
: Basically, IMO libertarianism is a philosophy that
: describes one way in which a human society can constitute itself. But
: human societies don't generally change rapidly without a great deal of
: distortion and pain.
Well, isn't rapid social change what we're all predicting?
: I simply don't feel that such a rapid change is
: justified. The existing setup is good enough to see us through to the
: singularity without an earlier politico-economic revolution. ...
Ah, there's the key disagreement. I don't believe the existing
structure can last; can't you hear it creaking? We're going to see
either widespread defection and escape into the "underground" economy,
or abandonment of the substance of constitutional government, if not
both, by 2010 at the latest.
A few years ago I predicted constitutional crisis in 12 years,
and someone promptly offered to bet that it would come sooner.
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