• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Of course the really juicy contradiction in their claims that their ideology is about Liberty is that Wealth and Ownership are actually restrictions on everybody else’s freedom - you literally can’t go into the land somebody owns withour their authorization and the wealthy can at will stop you from getting the things you need by outbidding you for them and you have no chance if they wish it so.

    Wealth and Ownership let the few control what the many can do, the very antithesis of Freedom.

    Maybe the single greatest scam that Libertarians have played on everybody, especially the “Modern” Left, was to overload everybody with meaningless discussions and focus on Effects rather than Causes, to the point of silencing the much older discussions and thinking about Money and of Ownership as the greatest forms of Power and Control Over Others.