Re: France\'s social market vs. the U.S.\'s libertarian/less social mark
The American market is 'less social' than the French market; you don't have to call it libertarian if you don't want to.
The problem is, if a market needs to be much more 'laissez-faire' than the U.S. to be considered libertarian, your thinking is utopian or requires a massive ammount of social control and repression of human beings to implement, contradicting the very basis of the main libertarian objection to 'statism'. Extremists talk about how the 'free' market allows people to get what they want, but people do not want the free market and all of its insecurity itself, therefore it must be imposed on humans who do not want it if it is to ever exist. In every country that has ever tried to move towards laissez-faire, massive resistance has occured to the insecurity (etc.) that the market imposes on people. And in no democracy do people freely choose libertarianism. In fact, in all other democracies I know the data for the libertarian party is smaller than the one in the U.S.
Ironic. The libertarian market is defended because it supposedly 'gives people what they want'. But they don't want that market itself. Hence, if our goal is to give people what they want, we shouldn't impose libertarianism on them.
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