>>87119847>Libertarians insist that monopolies totally wouldn't exist if there was no governmentThat's true in the case of things like copyright and patents where you've been given a government backed monopoly on something ( see: Disney movies from 70+ years ago STILL NOT IN PUBLIC DOMAIN; absurd medical patents on lifesaving drugs; ect )
>everything would be great somehow.This is typically the problem with anyone who puts Feels Before Reals (which is any form of Idealism when the Idealist starts thinking that there are really really simple answers to life's complex realities). For example: in college I knew a few Hippy-Dippy types who SERIOUSLY thought "what if they threw a war AND NOBODY CAME??" was a workable goal.
In Ayn Rand's books Industrialists are hyper competent superheros who just want to GET SHIT DONE (and they WOULD too, if it weren't for all these meddling k?i?d?s? politicians/regulations!) which is more or less *exactly* like the cops in any given police procedural ( NCIS, CSI, 5-O, whatever) if you think about it. Or, to keep this /co relevant, pretty much every *actual* superhero (all of whom exist in a fantasy where you can just punch evil in the face).
Our current election is what happens when you have an unhealthy slice of the public that looks at Donald Trump and sees Bruce Wayne.
