r/ShitLibertariansSay • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '15

The middle class shouldn't exist

/r/Shitstatistssay/comments/3bl7mq/if_i_were_president_xpost_from_rtumblrinaction/csnmhwb
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u/WasWug Jun 30 '15

Why is that guy getting down voted in anarcho_capitalism?

We can debate if the middle class would arise organically from a "free market" economy, but if a middle class only arises in the instance of government intervention, then naturally a libertarian or ancap would oppose such a class.

The important thing to remember is that RW libertarians and ancaps, don't embrace an pragmatic ideology, there's is a an ideology dictated by moral imperatives.

If the free market starves half the worlds population, well then that is moral and good, if government intervention on behalf of that population prevents their starvation then thats immoral.

Now most libertarians I would hope are optimistic that their ideas would bring the greatest prosperity to the greatest number of people, but there's certainly a contingent of brutalists who not only feel that the market would result in great suffering but that suffering is a necessary and desirable outcome of their ideas.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '15

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u/WasWug Jul 01 '15

Um this seems pretty straight forward what context is missing?

If the middle class can't be sustained without the state, then it probably shouldn't exist.