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Originally Posted by filtherton
In short, libertarianism is a great idea if you have no grasp of the apparently natural human inclination towards greed and shortsightedness. Libertarian systems tend towards monarchy, except instead of kings and queens, you have capitalists.
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If the human trend is towards greed and shortsightedness, and government is made of humans, why would we want more government control and not less.
This lends to companies legislating themselvsing into a greater market share via lobbyists. Government corruption is allowed to run rampant because the government is the law, whereas in a free market the consumer can remove the corruption by changing purchasing decisions.