This is interesting and touches on something I mentioned in my comment responding to Paul. Libertarian economics is typically interpreted as an expression of a constrained vision, but it can also be the expression of an unconstrained vision as you lay out here. The key thing that makes your vision unconstrained imo is where you say:
This is interesting and touches on something I mentioned in my comment responding to Paul. Libertarian economics is typically interpreted as an expression of a constrained vision, but it can also be the expression of an unconstrained vision as you lay out here. The key thing that makes your vision unconstrained imo is where you say:
"Still... given that my goal is the complete liberation of all individuals from the human condition I'm still doubling down. The ideal human state is where every individual is empowered to do whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason they choose. Any other existence is simply intolerable."
Unconstrained vision typically means you think A LOT of improvement is possible and that therefore a lot of sacrifice to move in the right direction is warranted.
But the constrained interpretation of libertarian econ is: individual knowledge is not sufficient to plan or decide what others should do with their time/resources and instead a system which assumes selfishness and yet can produce socially desirable results is the best we can do (makes me think of Hanania's "the humble capitalist")
This is interesting and touches on something I mentioned in my comment responding to Paul. Libertarian economics is typically interpreted as an expression of a constrained vision, but it can also be the expression of an unconstrained vision as you lay out here. The key thing that makes your vision unconstrained imo is where you say:
"Still... given that my goal is the complete liberation of all individuals from the human condition I'm still doubling down. The ideal human state is where every individual is empowered to do whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason they choose. Any other existence is simply intolerable."
Unconstrained vision typically means you think A LOT of improvement is possible and that therefore a lot of sacrifice to move in the right direction is warranted.
But the constrained interpretation of libertarian econ is: individual knowledge is not sufficient to plan or decide what others should do with their time/resources and instead a system which assumes selfishness and yet can produce socially desirable results is the best we can do (makes me think of Hanania's "the humble capitalist")