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slightlv

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1. They keep trying to
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:44 PM
Feb 2

build this libertarian techno-city someplace and it ALWAYS fails. First up (that I remember) was Utopia on the high seas. That failed spectacularly. Besides people dropping out once they realized the services, etc., that they were used to would not be provided, they withdrew their money. Then people who WERE on the ship, who'd bought into this Utopia idea, realized the laws, rules, and regulations were working against them more than FOR them, and they fled.

Now the tech-bros think they can seize an entire country (in the extreme cold, at that) and turn IT in a Libertarian Utopia? Please, someone pass new copies of Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead to these guys and set a requirement they not only read them cover to cover, but write a precise treatise on each book and how one bolstered the other, and then compare it to various governments across the world.

These guys have to be brought into the real world of critical thinking somehow.

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They keep trying to slightlv Feb 2 #1
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