Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 25/01/2025 17:35, D wrote:

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Libertarianism was very much the province of the soft right - and used to be what the Tory party mostly were.

 I would say, in eurospeak, that you are talking about liberalism. Libertarianism was invented to escape from the left apropriating the ism liberalism.
 

But at some point the entrenched elites decided that people should not really have freedom or they (the elite) might get 'replaced'
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Which is why we now have a third party topping the polls for the first time in a 100 years

 Excellent!

I think its worth while looking at the philosophy behind libertarianism - essentially it says that the people most able to make the correct choices in society are in fact the people, and that government is a parasite that is tolerated only insofar as it performs a clearly useful function.
The free market is an essentially part of all this, to allow buyers and sellers to set their own value on products and services, and thereby incentivise production of 'what people want' as opposed to the socialist principle of mandating production of what the elite think they ought to have.
Socialism tends to a big state run by technocrats who think they know what is best for you and will prevent you from doing anything else.
Libertarianism is run by a government with the tacit consent of the people to prevent only those things that a majority of people clearly feel are wrong.
Socialism always seeks to form the future. Libertarianism always seeks to preserve what has worked well in the past,and is reactive, not proactive.
Libertarianism listens to what the people *are* thinking
Socialism tells the people what they *ought to be* thinking
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