Sadly it isn't really worth arguing econ on HN. This place is full of cranks when it comes to that, unfortunately. Maybe better if we all just stick to programming.
There's a few bits of plumbing in this world you'd do best to familiarize yourself with so you can raise your socioeconomic stature with maximum efficiency, economics is one of them. I only tilt at them because I hope that they'll benefit from an understanding of how these things work in reality.
But no, us tech dweebs are the righteous little guys fighting back against the rigged system, man!
It's like the Futurama joke from Future Stock:
“Oh my god! I’m a millionaire! Suddenly, I have an opinion on the capital gains tax!”Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.
True, though I suspect that happened after they left high school.
> Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.
A study shows a quarter of libertarians don't know what libertarianism is heh. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_S...