Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:35:09 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <_hycnQxlN5kAphr6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <69ce04cf-80a7-7170-675f-4165ffedc92b@example.net> <4985abd5-ec8c-44da-0105-0778434959c0@example.net> <27da50fc-f7e3-1462-2bf0-8e234043a319@example.net> <14a614d4-fc6d-2a68-6128-c465a49a73c3@example.net> <-BidndiUDpnKQQ_6nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <2055b2fd-570d-6159-dd88-82aab8101d23@example.net> <7efc79f6-74b9-62c5-8dbb-5595451c7453@example.net> <20489ac0-b3bf-d864-743b-d39cfb9d3e85@example.net> <4ab2f1f9-1030-7dff-77d0-7d159ac88607@example.net> <34071f11-d385-c82c-c669-df294583c5e0@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1144258"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64803 On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 25/01/2025 17:35, D wrote: >>>> >>> Libertarianism was very much the province of the soft right - and used to >>> be what the Tory party mostly were. >> >> I would say, in eurospeak, that you are talking about liberalism. >> Libertarianism was invented to escape from the left apropriating the ism >> liberalism. >> >>> But at some point the entrenched elites decided that people should not >>> really have freedom or they (the elite) might get 'replaced' >>> >>> Which is why we now have a third party topping the polls for the first >>> time in a 100 years >> >> Excellent! > > I think its worth while looking at the philosophy behind libertarianism - > essentially it says that the people most able to make the correct choices in > society are in fact the people, and that government is a parasite that is > tolerated only insofar as it performs a clearly useful function. > The free market is an essentially part of all this, to allow buyers and > sellers to set their own value on products and services, and thereby > incentivise production of 'what people want' as opposed to the socialist > principle of mandating production of what the elite think they ought to have. > Socialism tends to a big state run by technocrats who think they know what is > best for you and will prevent you from doing anything else. > Libertarianism is run by a government with the tacit consent of the people to > prevent only those things that a majority of people clearly feel are wrong. > Socialism always seeks to form the future. Libertarianism always seeks to > preserve what has worked well in the past,and is reactive, not proactive. > Libertarianism listens to what the people *are* thinking > Socialism tells the people what they *ought to be* thinking Yes, I think that's a fair summary. You can then of course nit pick about the libertarian part and if government is necessary at all, or how it should be structured, but yes, from a high level I won't quarrel with that understanding of it.