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Libertarians' blind spot
The thing that has always cracked me up about Libertarianism is that there is this huge blind spot built in. The government that governs least governs best, right? But what if the entity wielding power doesn't call itself a government? What if it calls itself a CORPORATION? Your boss at work governs you a Hell of a lot more than the "Federal Government." She tells you what to wear, when to go to lunch, how to spend almost all of your time, and takes the value of the work you actually produce and ships the lion's share of it upstairs to the Great Big Boardroom in the Sky to inflate the golden parachutes of the CEO's that squander your pension fund and tell the "Federal Government" what to do. Paying your taxes to a BIG GOVERNMENT like they do in Europe is an investment in adequate health care for you and your loved ones, unions with balls that can make sure you get paid more than a poverty wage, an infrastructure that doesn't dump you in the river to die on your way to work, and a realistic adversary to the government that governs you the most The government that governs your boss the least is the friend of the government that governs YOU the most. Better to be a EuroSocialist, it's bound to come back into style.
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