I still think about the Libertarianism. It really speaks to people as if we’re all happy to get along with each other. Hey, don’t limit what people can do, the invisible hand of the market will even everything out! How naive can you get. 

When Steve Jobs says this about something like the iPad, that’s because that’s how the market works surely. People swear up and down about what the new Apple hardware is missing, but if it sells then it’s popular, then the exclusion isn’t important. 

But when it comes to human rights, laws and economics, you’re crazy. The Rand Paul scandal is extremely telling as to how bad the extension of this product-based philosophy can be extended. Before the laws forcing people to serve colored people in the US, there was huge segregation. And that was a decision that those business people made. Don’t serve them. So how come he claims that if there was no law, it wouldn’t happen thanks to economics? It didn’t work that way for a very long time. 

One of the more interesting reason I heard was that they were not served was because the white clientele would not stand for it. So the “invisible hand” guided the store owners to not serve the minorities. Could it be that the Libertarians are trying to make it sound like the invisible hand of the market is God and not human behaviour? The fact is that the “invisible hand” does not make moral or ethical decisions; and it’s extremely naive to think that things will work out in the way you imagine.

A lot of the rhetoric of the Libertarians are based on assumptions that no one will game the system. Really? This has been happening since the creation of Democracy. Or wait, before that. It’s just that before Democracy corruption was a feature of the system. Of course you’re going to hire your brother or your friend.

Meritocracy is such a load of lies. I mean really. I usually hear it from the people who got to live with their parents throughout university, not to mention with school paid for. Throw a job from a friend on top, and to them they’ve pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

It’s human nature to scratch each-others backs. I was in the coop class at school where you work part-time for a semester. We had one class about how to get a job. They had all these strategies and pointers on interviewing and building resumes. At the end of the class they revealed that really, you should get your job through connections, because that’s how it works. And it does. 

I also don’t think people who are Libertarian have worked a day in their life. Do you realize that a lot of work in the world is actually immeasurable, or isn’t measured? So what is the meritocracy based on if it can’t have anything to do with the merit of the work? Something else. So it basically can’t be meritocracy anymore can it?