Comment by roenxi

Well that is fascinating; I think that was probably enough to call this week a success - thanks for the discussion at https://josephg.com/blog/kegans-social-developmental-milesto... too, it was easy reading and hugely educational.

Although I don't really feel comfortable just agreeing with someone on HN, so I'll also just poke https://josephg.com/blog/why-i-am-no-longer-a-libertarian/ while I'm on the way through to stay in practice. The complaint against libertarianism could be made against any system. Note that through history the developed world generally just leaves poor nations to starve and fumble for example (well, that is a bit generous - we raided and pillaged them). On the spectrum of pure authoritarianism to pure libertarianism, the system that has the best chance of finding a reason for the wealthy to help the poor turned out to be liberty. And within libertarianism there is a lot of room to negotiate over how mineral rights and economic rent are handled.