Why is it a bad idea?

Let’s completely outsource government and do away with taxes and bureaucratic waste and skimming.

The money you give goes directly to the issues you deem most important.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Business has plenty of bureaucratic waste too and the profit motive does not always produce healthy competition.

The society you speak of would make sense on a surface level but would have huge problems in reality. Those with capital would dominate and also have control of the army and the police. They would be free to draft their own laws and would be under no legal obligation for any moral responsibility at all. The libertarian paradise would be a feudal-style autocracy.

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GardenSage · 36-40, M

It would absolutely work... just not for you.

Which is kinda the whole point... there isn’t a 1 size fits all political philosophy... it’s a fool’s errand to pursue that. So then decentralize and let people govern themselves. It works for every other species on the planet and likely worked for humans for a few 10,000 years @Burnley123

GardenSage · 36-40, M

@Burnley123 also you don’t need an exaggerated version of libertarianism. Centerism is kind of the idea. A great compromise.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@GardenSage Not for me lol. I'm educated and reasonably capable. If I wanted to just live life by the profit motive I could do better than a lot of people. I'm not interested in kissing the ass of power and I want to do good for the world.

'it works for other species?'. Leave aside examples of animals that work together collectively (most of them). We are not like other species and you would not like to live like another species.

MasterofNone · 26-30, M

Isn't a bad idea but the model is yet to be properly designed. And implementation will take even more. I'm a supporter of this philosophy tbh.

GardenSage · 36-40, M

@MasterofNone the amount of experts weighing in is hilarious

katielass · F

Shallow minds love this idea but they can't think deep enough to see how it could never work.

GardenSage · 36-40, M

@katielass even shallower minds choose to not engage and instead levy crude insults without attempting to integrate ideas.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

yaaaay

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