Libertarians are anarchists who would lose in a knife fight.

[Squilliam]

rocketpig said:

Squilliam said:

 The biggest failing IMO of liberals is that they don't understand incentives and what drives people to actually succeed and in my personal experience the libertarians need to share the liberals political distrust of larger corporations and their ability to distort the free market.

100% spot-on. My biggest beef with Libertarianism is its faith that big business will do the right thing but big government will not. It makes no sense.

Big business exists in large part because of government mandates. It makes sense that an organisation which exists and acts in a certain way due to various legal requirements and priviledges given to them by government would act in a similarly inefficient way. For instance, tech companies are developed and groomed to be bought out by larger companies in part because of the patent minefield of the tech industry. Many companies couldn't exist without cross licensing agreements on patents for instance.