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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by piva00 on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:17AM (#47364809)
Ideological idiocy, the dismantling of anything public turning into private hands is ideologically pure for libertarian-inclined folks, no matter how strategically stupid it might be.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by hn_acc1 on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:18PM (#47369287)
This. 1000x this.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by fc417fc802 on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:28PM (#47370178)
Seems more directly capitalist than libertarian to me.
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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by piva00 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @05:31AM (#47374892)
Neoliberal capitalism is founded on absorbing parts of libertarian thinking. The "capitalism" moniker of today used by ideologues is coupled to the meaning of it given by neoliberals.

It's been coopted, not necessarily capitalism means "everything should be private", the current flavour of capitalist ideology wants that but other versions of capitalism don't put that as a foundational Ideological tenet.

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