In my experience, libertarians tend to be extremely moderate conservatives who don’t want to submit to God.

If there’s no competition, then providers can just make up any price that they want and the government has to pay it.

When there’s an entirely planned economy, there’s no possibility for alternatives to be created.

I want there to be a viable public option that exists. The alternative would be to require that everyone get coverage.

This is probably where I align economically, but I support statist mandates that are inconsistent with “individual libertarianism” or “civil libertarianism.”

For example, we should decriminalize drug use, but there should absolutely be a strong statist intervention where people are forced to stop using drugs.

Libertarians are the right wing version of 20 year old socialists who want free stuff and have no understand of what really drives and motivates people.

I tend to lean left but I’m incredibly disappointed with the state of the political landscape.

Libertarians are political extremists who hate anything related to the government but don’t care about being oppressed by private businesses, or they think that it simply won’t happen in their utopia. Libertarians are everything they hate about the woke left, only applied to the government.

The problem is defining what acceptable positive rights involves. There are people who think that having to “work to survive” is somehow a major human rights abuse. I don’t think that anyone should be entitled to not have to work unless they are severely disabled and can’t work. At the same time, expecting people to work multiple jobs is corporate oppression.

I’m not a libertarian, but from what I’ve seen of their positions on this, they don’t think that it’s possible in an effective way. There’s two possible versions: the government pays for everything, or there’s public and private health care. A lot of countries have both, which is probably the best option since driving out competition is going to make everything go to crap.

The problem is that there are some arrangements that simply can’t work or the existing system would implode in the transition.

There are also a lot of people who don’t want to pay because someone who refused to get insurance for years finally decided to sign up for public health care because they suddenly got a serious health problem. In some possible arrangements, it would be necessary to force people to have health insurance, which is its own rabbit hole.

Liability is also one of the reasons we don’t have so much of the insanity we used to have. It’s the reason you don’t have to worry as much about poisoned food.

Not having any social interaction would be likely to make it a lot harder.

As much as I think automation is progress, a future where people can go get stuff with no human interaction at all will likely end badly for the people who are already on the edge.

WFH is good for a lot of people and has practical advantages, but it will likely be incredibly bad for people who are already struggling.

As a theoretical religious communist, I have a counterpoint. An independent livable wage would be too high for many jobs and would ultimately lead to the elimination of those jobs. While that might sound good, I’ve had autistic people tell me that retail is the only thing they can do.

I feel like a lot of people should be getting paid and treated better then they are, but then there are redditors who think that fast food employees should be getting paid $30 per hour.

Hypothetically, if fast food employees had to be paid $30 per hour, the first thing that would happen is prices would go up. Then large numbers of employees would be fired. The employees who remain would be the absolute minimum necessary to do the job and they would end up extremely overworked. They would also be expected to be on call to come in at any moment during their time off and they’d likely be on an extremely strict attendance policy since not showing up could mean the restaurant has to close down.

I support automation of the service industry, but I worry about the future of everyone when everyone is constantly going about their day with no real interaction.

The reason I support self checkout is because a small number of employees can oversee a large number of machines. It’s bad for people who are going to end up with extreme social anxiety because they were allowed to go for long periods of time without real interaction.

No one is specifically in charge of social rules. There are reasons why things are the way they are, and it seems common that geeks and people who have often operated outside of this system think that they can intentionally defy the social rules without consequence if they understand the reason for it and think they can compensate.

This sort of “social hacking” doesn’t work because geeks don’t fully comprehend all the reasons why things are the way they are and it ultimately blows up in their face.

As long as it doesn’t cause a problem for me, then it’s not a big deal. I suspect that if it happened though, I’d have to deal with him having explosive anger over it.

It’s a small moped with a step through frame.

I’m not sure exactly how he is with road rage, but he kept telling me about incidents that he had until I told him that he’s obviously the one instigating them because there’s no way that a reasonable person lets themselves get caught up in trouble like that.

I’ve told him the reason. I suspect that maybe he feels like it’s slightly more difficult to take the scooter back and it’s enough of a hump that he doesn’t do it.

I’ll try setting up a parking area in the back with a place for tools and related things and set it up so that everyone has their own space that they can use and lock up a bike if they have one. I think that giving him his own space like that would be good for encouragement.

I think that you’re right. I don’t want to stress him out but I see him do a lot of things without thinking that I’m sure aren’t good for him. He kind of just “exists” in that he just goes about his day and punches the clock and comes home.

I don’t want to deal with the fallout if his scooter were to get stolen because I don’t think he’d take it well.

What are you like?

Based on experience, it makes sense to me that some autistic people might be very upset by this because it seems like some of them have a very strong desire to maintain control.

My sister is trans and gay and this statistic makes me uncomfortable. It can easily be abused by religious people.