[bigstrat2003]

One of the interesting insights I've had recently (in my late 30s) is that young people always assume that the older generation is out of touch and can't see the obvious solutions to all of life's problems. But it seems to me now that the truth is rather different - the older generation often has the experience to understand why those solutions are not going to work, whereas the young don't yet have that hard-won experience (cause it takes time).

I myself have been (and still am tbh) fairly libertarian. But the older I get and the more I see, the more I start to understand that there are flaws in the idea. Not everyone is going to do the right thing (for various reasons), and sometimes you simply have to intervene because the cost of not doing so becomes too high. I do think that our government tends too much towards nanny-ism, but at the same time I kinda get why.