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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
Anyways, three Libertarian positions (in the American context) I find to be retarded:
-returning to the gold standard
-advocating free trade
-advocating an open immigration policy
...although the creepy obsession with Ayn Rand makes my skin crawl, you claim not to read her, so...
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OK. I understand, you don't like philosophy as basis for politics. I'll try not going balls deep into it in this thread from here on out.
The gold standard was abandoned as a dissociative tool so that a globalized economy would be less susceptible to economic catastrophe. Libertarianism addresses this by advocating decentralization of public wealth. If the NYSE was split among (for the sake of example) 20 different city-states, that wouldn't be an issue.
Free trade and open immigration are necessary because they allow for the flux of wealth and labor between communities. If one is short on labor, and another wealth, an open migration & trade policy would allow those communities to meet their individual needs. As an economic strata, libertarianism is basically the idea of only using the resources of where you live & work to generate wealth.