The types that always clamor for small government want it small for everything but themselves.
Stricter labor laws? Universal healthcare? God forbid the lower classes get something out of the system. Meritocracy is only for the upper class that deserve their wealth for taking risks.
Now is the time to stand up for their beliefs, and they want a bail out. Meritocracy and capitalism? Nah, let's give cash for the wealthy, so they can keep churning out more subscription services and gig economy apps.
FYI libertarians typically do not want the government / taxpayers to bail out companies for bad decisions.
Many sloppy "pro business" kinds of people claim to be libertarians but they really want a lot of government intervention in some markets and not others. This is just an example of typical hypocrisy and not proof that people who actually do support libertarian philosophies are like that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui...
I ask for VC funded delivery services to stop stealing tips from gig workers:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart...
I’d also like to see social media held accountable for the harms done to children and communities and for our existing laws against anti-competitive behavior and collusion to be enforced against search and software platforms.
The chutzpah of the Silicon Valley influencer crowd over this weekend has become seriously fucking unbearable.
My feeds are full of sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk? I mean GTFO.
I’m all for regulation and I in fact do think the government should be heavily involved in preventing this kind of thing and helping if it ends up happening.
But if we’re going to regulate let’s fucking regulate. Any answer to this tweet should start with a quick review of this guy and his friends campaign contributions and lobbying involvement.
There’s nothing special about you. Your lives aren’t more important than the lives of the children of employees at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, or the workers at the Amazon faculty on Staten Island.
If your values system only applies to you and your friends it’s not much of a values system.