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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 3 Feb \ on: Baby-Boomers are Loaded. Why Are They Not Spending? (The Economist) econ
Yes the Boomers raised a generation of bleating spoilt brats who call themselves Libertarians.
All three of them?
No, boomer raised millennials, the whiny, eschatological, rule-complying, and altogether retarded generation. They don't even know the word "libertarian"
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Safe to say a fair number of millennials (born in the 1990s and early 2000s) are Libertarians.
Quite a few here on SNs in fact.
Fair to say though Libertarians of all ages don't accept or even understand the crucial role government has in the generation of the wealth of nations.
That misunderstanding of fundamental principles of human society and power projection is harmful to the society that embraces it. Neoliberalism demonstrated that already.
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The gov doesn't have a crucial role in generating wealth and wellbeing. This is clear as a matter of logic and history.
And no, I doubt millennials at large have more libertarian ideas, self identified or not. (Though will search around for some surveys).
And drop "neolib," sir. It just tells me you're an idiot
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Show us an empire that gained wealth and power without the crucial role of the government being central to its success?
SILENCE.
Governments are crucial to the wealth of nations and always have been.
Neoliberals as in the Bush era and the Thatcher era- right through until at least the GFC 2008 when the shit finally hit the fan - the neoliberal 'intellectuals' and influencers (actually bankers and other corporate lobbyist - rentseekers) who espoused the idea of free markets will fix it and that the government will just make a mess.
Your desperate desire to cancel the use of this word appears to stem from the fact that your Libertarian nonsense has already been applied- by Neoliberal Boomers, and proven to fail!
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