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by Veen 1188 days ago
Maybe, but the people of influence who profess to be libertarians are not exactly committed adherents of a carefully thought-out libertarian philosophy (except maybe Thiel, although his libertarianism has a religious caste). In general, the SV libertarian is an egotist who talks up a poorly understood distortion of libertarian thought because it's a fig leaf for their rapacious amorality, and they cast off its tenets whenever it suits them.