XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:51:32 -0800, linuxgal    
   wrote in alt.atheism:   
      
   >Free Lunch wrote:   
   >> I have no use for   
   >> most people who call themselves libertarian because they erroneously   
   >> assume that they will be able to be the next billionaires if only the   
   >> government got out of the way.   
   >   
   >Then we should get along, I don't want to be rich.  I can't wait for my   
   >eleven days of sequestration so I have free time.  I am a libertarian   
   >because it meshes with my Taoist philosophy and also with my   
   >understanding that every system in the universe is a Carnot engine, from   
   >the smallest bacterium to the largest rice farm in California.   
      
   So you rely on the government for your income. How terribly   
   'libertarian' of you.   
      
   I disagree with your assessment of the economy, however. It is   
   meaningless to assert that it is a Carnot engine. First, all economic   
   activity has inefficiency. How we minimize inefficiency depends on which   
   inefficiency we are dealing with. Certain goods and services are needed   
   without regard to available prices and are most effectively provided by   
   government. Others can be more effectively provided by a private sector   
   because there are people willing to risk failure for profit. When the   
   good or service is no longer needed, the provider of the service has to   
   do something else.   
      
   I have no idea how Taoism justifies an anti-community attitude.   
      
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