alt Hacker NewsAre you surprised that a forum full of people all-in hustle culture and the whole VC-startup grift is extremely selfish?
This is not to say that the government should get blind faith, but some notions that the collective good has any value is alien to many people here.
Libertarianism is a societal disease. "Fuck you got mine".
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How is refusing to kill your fellow men selfishness? For one organization over one other?
Collective good doesn’t necessarily mean the State, and not trusting the State doesn’t mean being an American-style right libertarian either.
It’s a common fallacy of performative US leftism that believes the world can be divided neatly into blue vs red.
"Fuck you got mine" is the attitude of the boomers expecting young people to die for a country that the boomers left economically and demographically ruined. Young Germans have the worst life prospects of any generation in the past fifty years.
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over and over again, we see that governments are pretty bad at doing their job. over and over again, they prove to us that they cant handle money, that they are corrupt, that they put the interest of their political class above that of the people.
so are you surprised?
id rather be left alone as much as possible in my pursuit of happiness. On my own terms!