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A very, very right-wing coworker once said to me: "There is no such thing as society. There is no such thing as common good. These are fictions created to control you."

I was happy he had identified our fundamental disagreement so that we didn't have to argue further.

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Yes, now throw him out deep into the Mongolian steppes and see how he fares without modern supply chains.

Everyone's a libertarian until you take away the fruits of industry.

Mutual benefit is a thing, industry works fine when everyone is driven by selfishness as no one agrees to a transaction unless both parties are better off.

I'd much sooner live with that coworker in the steppes than cheerman mao or other charlatans in Asian history proclaiming about the common good.

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