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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by dTal on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:55AM (#20766331)
The process of making sure people aren't hurting others is called "government" and "regulation", which self-professed Libertarians appear to be against. They say things like "the FDA is stupid, the free market will sort it out" - when the FDA was created because the free market was killing people.

Vis a vis classism, if you refuse to regulate and allow everyone to be "free to choose", you are essentially advocating a dog-eat-dog world where people with money and power consolidate more and more of it. This is "feudalism" and it generally results in a raw deal for the poor.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by WalterBright on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:57AM (#20766341)
> which self-professed Libertarians appear to be against.

That's conflating Anarchists with Libertarians. Libertarians are not Anarchists.

Feudalism is something different altogether.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by mftrhu on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:42PM (#20770580)
> Libertarians are not Anarchists.

Unless with "libertarians" you are referring to ancaps, this is just false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Rise_of_anarchi...

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by WalterBright on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:57PM (#20773481)
Libertarianism relies on government to enforce peoples' rights. Anarchism is fundamentally different.
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