Can I just note I’m amazed by the commenters in this post who are libertarians about money but appear to be socialists with other people’s time and attention. The world does not owe you a social living.
Worth noting that libertarians on Less Wrong tend to be libertarians because they think free markets produce more utility without government intervention—not because they believe a story about taxation being unjustified coercion or wealth redistribution being theft. There is nothing necessarily hypocritical about thinking that wealth shouldn’t be redistributed but social status should.
Though I suspect there are pro-free market arguments that would cross apply.
Can I just note I’m amazed by the commenters in this post who are libertarians about money but appear to be socialists with other people’s time and attention. The world does not owe you a social living.
Worth noting that libertarians on Less Wrong tend to be libertarians because they think free markets produce more utility without government intervention—not because they believe a story about taxation being unjustified coercion or wealth redistribution being theft. There is nothing necessarily hypocritical about thinking that wealth shouldn’t be redistributed but social status should.
Though I suspect there are pro-free market arguments that would cross apply.
True, it also isn’t entitled to stop us from trying to acquire one by imposing arbitrary rules.
Edit: I could equally well turn the question around and ask why liberals aren’t trying to make social livings more fair.
Is there any chance that there are people who want your company that you’ve been ignoring?
I gotta ask: how’s your present approach working out for you?
Do you mean the present approach to markets, or to dating?
How your present approach to everything works out in terms of dating.
While I agree with your fundamental point, you seem too be confusing libertarian political philosophy with libertine ethics.