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Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by skywal_l on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:17AM (#34196600)
Agreed. Just a nitpick, when I think of libertarian absolutists, I don't necessarily think about Adam Smith. I haven't read "Wealth of Nations", but I believe he was much more reasonable than an Ayn Rand for example.

American style libertarian absolutists are usually not very subtle, sometimes even clownish like she was.

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Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by danaris on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:52AM (#34196918)
From what I understand, having also not read The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had some...biases and blind spots, but was overall talking about useful ideas.

Thing is, he recognized them as theoretical. Too many of the people parroting them think they were meant to be applied directly to the real world, as if we had an actual spherical market cow in a vacuum.

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