Rshermr
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And you can stay as ignorant as you wish, and believe in a libertarian economic system that has never, ever existed in real life.
Commercial? Really, me boy. The internet was developed for decades by the DoD and called arpanet. Nice try, though.
Regardless of how the internet was developed or the concept was invented, the network was built and is maintained by the private sector. No, it was not. the internet was developed, and the concept was developed, by the DoD. Unless you believe the DoD was the private sector, you make no sense. Please, me boy, your job is now to find an expert source that tells you the internet was a private product. Good luck.
I surf the net almost exclusively on my phone. The cellular towers are similarly built and maintained by the private sector.
Ever here of Bell Labs. Good luck with that one.
Now, where is (or was) that Libertarian economy, or society, you suggested existed?
I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure this post is delivered to you over a network built and maintained by the private sector. Right. Based on technology developed and software written by the DoD.I already noted that the concept and design of the internet was developed in the public sphere.
Libertarian societies existed among the Quakers. OK. Maybe, maybe not. But no successful libertarian economy ever existed. Some Native American tribes were fairly libertarian. The godard system in old Iceland was libertarian. The Amish of today have a rotating body of elders whose job is to facilitate consensus meetings. In all of these systems we're talking about a matter of degrees. So, you just listed several libertarian No political system is entirely libertarian just as no political system is entirely totalitarian. The point is nuanced.
So, in the hundreds of countries and hundreds of years, we have had successful socialist economies, and even communist economies. But no Libertarian economies. Kind of says what I have been saying. Which is that regardless of how badly communist economies have performed, they have done better than libertarian economies. To the point that there are communist countries, still, today. But no Libertarian economies.
But the main idea I brought up is concerned about the future. New technologies enable peer to peer relationships that formerly were not a possibility. Technology exists today, for example, that enables people to build their own internet via wireless mesh routers.
In my opinion, the future economy will be a more distributed economy. At least, that possibility exists.
One growth sector is wearable technology. Within a decade perhaps, people will have real-time data about heart rate, blood pressure, blood chemistry, vitamin deficiencies, pathogens, etc.. A doctor won't be able to tell you much that you don't already know. That will lessen the need for health insurance to cover routine checkups. We will see, eh. No way are you making sense.
In education, electricity production, healthcare, manufacturing, communication, publishing, etc. technologies are moving us toward a less centralized and more distributed economy. Really. You must have a link, then.
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