Thank you for having the balls to call out immature and idiocentric opinions for what they are.
If people were more willing to do that in real life, we wouldn't have libertarians parading charity over welfare and disaster capitalism over funding relief efforts.
Unfortunately, people can waltz through life espousing selfish and socially harmful opinions and never have to face social repercussions, reinforcing the opinion, thus never having to call them into question.
Libertarians like to think they have a monopoly on rationality, but what they have a simplistic and inherently selfish ideology that values property rights over human life. Thus he is childlike in his view of the world, as it has to fit quaintly into his narrow narrative, and what follows from such story-telling to one's self are the sociopathic beliefs and behaviors inflicted on society.
Excellent. Instead of looking at the bigger picture that depicts how this isn't a viable option to solve the problems of poverty and homelessness, you co-opt it as a libertarian talking point. Bravo!
This guy most likely would have had the same fate as a majority of the homeless if it wasn't for a select individual who decided to dedicate his time to educate the man on how to write code.
To pretend that this situation is anything other than a reflection on the sad state of affairs.the disadvantaged in this country face, the reality that says if they don't happen to know someone who is willing to dedicate a large chunk of time to adequately prepare them to enter a new profession and provide necessities, they are screwed, is myopic and incredibly self-serving.
There is a reason we have a social safety net, it is because fluff pieces like this cannot be applied to the situation at large, and disadvantaged people tend to fall through the cracks thus have less people in their lives who might help them like this man.
Reading this article and twisting it into a talking point that will be construed as advocacy of dismantling that safety net isn't something to be proud of.
They are competing for the functionality of what used to be on the desktop gamer's desk.
The kinds of people who still buy desktop computers will be those who need them to do their work, play games, or do things 99.9% of people don't care about.
Executed properly, this will capture the the market that is willing to pay hundreds of extra dollars for top of the line 'extreme' consumer hardware so they can play games offered on Steam.
Model it after the Mondragon Corporation[0], meritocratic and lets workers profit the most from their work. Anything less than this just furthers the problem, and arguably, even this model is a band aid on a much larger festering wound.
Having not read Nock doesn't preclude me from taking your argument as you've written it. Nice try at appealing to questionable authority, though. I'm disappointed at this level of discourse.
Secondly, why do you assume that I assume that? It's quite emblematic of the erosion of logic in libertarian "rationality". If you read my post, you can see I touched on outreach by the community, which isn't enough after devastating disaster.
We had volunteers come from all over the country, that helped with the most superficial matters: ie removing debris, evangelizing. That was temporary immediate relief and they were not seen again after a month.
It wasn't enough to fix the heavy structural damage. It wasn't enough to find shelter for people without homes.
But go on, tell me how we're domesticated humans for exhausting all of our options and possibly maybe getting funds to rebuild.
Social fabric in America has been eroded away by poverty, lack of opportunity, alienation, and the good old divide and conquer method.
Please expound on how you believe government intervention is the cause of our ills.
>He argues that expanding government crowds out non-governmental social activity, giving the example of hurricane response
My house was ruined by Hurricane Sandy, I am grateful that our Republican governor went against the grain and backed a relief fund program.
Fuck you and your advocacy of disaster capitalism. Towns were wiped off the map, if you think the solution is a bunch of vultures looking to profit from a tragedy and not government intervention, you've been blinded by your ideology.
Here's a hint: despite locals' efforts to help one another out, all of our shit was wrecked, but we still did it. Everyone's everything was gone, we can only help ourselves so much given the fact most people didn't have a home, electricity, or running water.
We must be the domesticated humans you're going on about. What does that make you? Who benefits from such an disgusting ideology? Only people who are infinitely more wealthy than you'll ever be.
Thought it was an attempt to troll the crowd that LaTeX draws, but its embedded across his whole site, or at least the parts I looked at.