I am a libertarian, my friend. Everyone should get what they deserve. It is not right to live off the people. Work and earn, it is very simple.
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Everyone is forced to work for low wages when corporations use unfair tactics to depress the labor market... Competition can only enforce fairness when the market is properly regulated to enforce fair competition. When companies are allowed to abuse their positions of power, the market ceases to be a check on abusive practices like wage fixing...
You say people are "forced" to work for low wages, but that only makes sense if you assume they have no agency or choice in the matter. The truth is, wages are a reflection of the value the market assigns to certain skills and labor. If someone wants to earn more, the solution isn't to regulate and distort the market—it’s to gain skills that are in higher demand.
When governments start "correcting" markets, they usually create new forms of inequality and inefficiency. Competition is fair when it's free. The moment you regulate it to be “fair,” you give power to bureaucrats instead of letting individuals negotiate their own worth.
So you’re mad that companies sell fragile products? Great — then build a better one. Seriously. Nobody’s stopping you from designing a washing machine that lasts 30 years. Do it, sell it, profit. That’s how a free market works.
Complaining that life is expensive while waiting for the government to fix everything won’t change a thing. The world owes you nothing — but it will pay you if you offer something better.
So instead of whining, how about you create the solution? Or is that too much personal responsibility for one day?
I don't know which country you live in, but even though my country is not socialist, I am not against the government paying salaries to disabled people. For the elderly, there is a thing called the retirement system. If you didn't invest for retirement when you were young, should my taxes feed you when you are old?
That’s exactly the problem — you think taxes are some magic piggy bank that “gives back” later. No, taxes are forcibly taken from others under threat. Libertarianism isn’t about hating the elderly — it’s about rejecting a system where one group is entitled to live off another by law.
If someone paid into a retirement system voluntarily, I support that. But when you force others to subsidize people who didn’t plan ahead, you’re no longer helping — you’re stealing.
Honestly, from what you wrote, it’s clear you don’t even know what you’re defending. You’re just talking to talk.
He did plan ahead, he worked his whole life and paid taxes so that he would get retirement money back when he was old. If you don't like taxes, then don't work. Nobody is forcing you to work right?
And yeah those darn kids are just massive leeches who we are forced by law to subsidize, it would be much better if we sent them back to the mines so they could earn their keep on their own! The owners of those mines are such good people and will pay them a really good wage for that work.
the point is not believing that taxes are magical, but believing that everyone deserves a bite of fundamental human rights.
Everyone is forced to pay taxes (let's not pretend that people can abandon society and go live in the woods), but it's simply disappointing and sad to see that people pretend that the actual economy is the only possible way of living.
Instead of tryng to sound smart, just go ahead and say that you have no empathy for others.