You don’t mention which libertarian works you consulted in forming your views on the topic. A very accessible introduction is “What it means to be a libertarian” by Charles Murray.
This point of view is very old e.g. the early Daoist works have libertarian threads. So you don’t have to imagine what libertarians think, and they have been thinking hard about the issues for a long time.
One thing that surprises many people is the enthusiastic support among many libertarians for collective action and for cooperative organisations. The caveat being that they are not mandated by overbearing people with guns.
Another thing that often surprises is the realization of how well people are able to coordinate among themselves without too many people who are from the government and here to help.
[shortening of another comment] I’m wondering how people think that wage negotiations would work out in a libertarian world, and in particular whether there are arguments that the results would be Just or good or something. Rather than e.g. the wealthiest purchasing and then enforcing a monopoly on violent force, or the workers doing the same.
I’m not saying the libertarian world is worse. I’m asking what it looks like because it seems to get more at the question of how these negotiations could, would, and should work, instead of being hopelessly obscured by non-libertarian shenanigans.
You don’t mention which libertarian works you consulted in forming your views on the topic. A very accessible introduction is “What it means to be a libertarian” by Charles Murray.
This point of view is very old e.g. the early Daoist works have libertarian threads. So you don’t have to imagine what libertarians think, and they have been thinking hard about the issues for a long time.
One thing that surprises many people is the enthusiastic support among many libertarians for collective action and for cooperative organisations. The caveat being that they are not mandated by overbearing people with guns.
Another thing that often surprises is the realization of how well people are able to coordinate among themselves without too many people who are from the government and here to help.
[shortening of another comment] I’m wondering how people think that wage negotiations would work out in a libertarian world, and in particular whether there are arguments that the results would be Just or good or something. Rather than e.g. the wealthiest purchasing and then enforcing a monopoly on violent force, or the workers doing the same.
I’m not saying the libertarian world is worse. I’m asking what it looks like because it seems to get more at the question of how these negotiations could, would, and should work, instead of being hopelessly obscured by non-libertarian shenanigans.