All states are theocratic. The question is who the god is. For capitalist states, it’s capital accumulation (a term I use for its increased information content compared to the mere, “money”).
Libertarians aren’t telling you to accumulate capital
Certainly they are. They’re setting up a society whose core, whose driving engine, is an optimization process for capital accumulation. With that in place, the systemic incentive structure affecting everyone becomes: accumulate capital or die.
All states are theocratic. The question is who the god is. For capitalist states, it’s capital accumulation (a term I use for its increased information content compared to the mere, “money”).
So theocrats like to claim. “Hey, everybody is doing it.”
Libertarians aren’t telling you to accumulate capital, they’re telling you to expect retaliation if you kill or rob your neighbors.
Certainly they are. They’re setting up a society whose core, whose driving engine, is an optimization process for capital accumulation. With that in place, the systemic incentive structure affecting everyone becomes: accumulate capital or die.