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Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians?
BrendanMcGrail writes "Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum? As a leftist, I know there are many people who share my ideological views, but have very little in common with me in terms of profession and non-work interests. Is the community's political bent directly tied to our higher than average economic success?"
Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum? As a leftist, I know [blah]
If you're a "leftist", you're not a libertarian. Left-leaning people generally believe the state should force people to help one another despite mankind's natural egotistic tendencies, through taxes. Libertarians believe they should be free to do whatever they want provided everybody else is free as well. Not exactly the same thing eh?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
maybe I have been misled by those "Evil Republicans", but don't ...) ...)
:) my first post on Slashdot and maybe my last unless I am confused again
Republicans:
Want to tax less and make people free to do whatever they want (not force us to ie: give money to lazy/poor, "save the environment", subsidize corporations to do useless stuff...
Want smaller government and less laws so people can do whatever the hell they want (within reason ie: no killing but you can freely talk about methods to kill someone)
Democrats:
Want to tell you what to do with your money (ie: tax to waste money on stuff and give it to the poor/lazy) instead of allowing you to choose who gets it (through donations to worthy organizations?)
Want to force people to act in certain ways... (force us to use hazardous light bulbs that save a little electricity but cost thousands to cleanup one broken bulb and I wonder where all that mercury ends up?, and don't even get me started on low flow toilets...)
Want to dictate what we see and hear whether we want to or not (radio fairness act, big media companies,
Allow poor/lazy people to sue "Big Companies" and waste our money (court costs) and steal money from legitimate companies due to the lazy/poor persons incompetence (lady puts RV on cruise control and leaves wheel to make a sandwich, RV flips over and she gets $500k a new RV and they update their manual, or hot coffee if ur boring)
now how do you get to democrats/liberals giving us more freedom?
and please correct me if I am wrong.
If only smokers ever patronized restaurants you could be certain non-smoking restaurants would open almost immediately. A market vacuum that big would never go unfilled for long.
Of course, you don't understand capitalism so I guess that's not blindingly obvious to you. You'd rather have Bog Brother take care of the issue for you.
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'On paper socialism isn't a bad system of government either, but in reality thy both have serious problems.'
No doubt. That said, in practice socialism is the most effective system in the modern world. Capitalism is a distant second. Economically capitalism has performed almost as well but it has certainly dropped to the bottom rung in terms of research and development, medicine and health care, academics and the school systems as a whole, the criminal justice systems in capitalist nations are also poor.
Ah, the old correlation between being an anti-socialist and being full of crap holds true once again.
If your goal is government-based theft and the removal of incentive and responsibility, socialism is swell.
Go watch Sicko. Despite the terrible socialist boogyman, doctors who work under socialist medicine are quite capable of making $200,000+ per year and living in million dollar homes.
Socialism by its very nature requires a big government, which increases the probability of tyranny.
Tell that to the Republican party.
The claim that socialistic health care has been proven to be the best again depends upon your goals, but if your goal is health, the claim is a lie. Not a mistake, a lie.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Again, watch Sicko. The U.S. generally pays twice as much per person for worse health care. Hell, Cuba has nearly caught up to us, and they spend about 1/30 per person.