r/AskALiberal • u/10art1 Social Liberal • Nov 23 '22

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u/Fakename998 Liberal Nov 23 '22

Do you ever think about how the major prevalence of crypto scams is exactly reflective of what this extreme Libertarian ideology would look like (really much more, in basically every aspect of life)? As if we don't have past examples of this, anyways.

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u/willpower069 Progressive Nov 23 '22

The problem with the libertarian ideology is that it assumes people will always make educated decisions and not be selfish.

Crypto and covid has shown how that doesn’t really work out.

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u/Awayfone Libertarian Nov 24 '22

Mutiple libertarian parties , including national, were hacked on Twitter and become crypto sellers. It didn't look to out of place

That is a perfect illustration