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> So, go ahead and be smug about gold

You have no idea about basic economics and it isn't my job to teach you. Look up 'deflation' and read this:

http://m.cnbc.com/id/40088925/Roubini_Here_s_Why_a_Gold_Stan...

Finally, the gold standard would still be fiat currency. Governments only stay on it when it benefits them, or when they think it does, and can go off it at any time.

> libertarianism does lead to the rapid advancement of a society from third world conditions to first world conditions

Only by allowing companies to optimize for profit and advancement at the expense of everything else.

That's it, really: The Libertarian ideal of free markets deciding practically everything means that whoever gets ahead in the free market can write their own laws, effectively, and not have to worry about any externalities (like pollution, or injured workers, or so on) they create.

You also haven't made the case for it helping a country that's already in the First World.

> Libertarians believe in the non-aggression principle.

Which is simplistic in that it deliberately ignores all of the ways to initiate force that companies actually engage in (union-busting, polluting, legislation-purchasing) and focuses on the crap they don't do, like breaking-and-entering or outright homicide.

> IF you want to argue against libertarianism, show how it is moral to initiate force.

No. Not valid. I must merely show that Libertarianism is a sub-optimal way to prevent the initiation of force, which I have above.

> you imagine are scary ("Gilded Age" for instance)

You really don't know how bad the Gilded Age was, do you?




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