Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
https://www.change.org/p/barnaby-joyce-dairy-farmers-like-my-family-are-bein... destroyed-please-step-in- urgently/u/16583897?tk=TYRO2k3SiGZUBRu4hwtFwXXkn357kIh6RcXFDSxVXgw&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email
I sympathise with the dairy farmers; but would need to see what is being proposed to remedy their plight; before signing the partition. On the subject of Libertarianism At the Existentenialist Society (which is a lecture forum not a club); we get left and right-wing anarchist attendee's and speakers. Frankly, right-wing anarchists seem little different from Libertarians and the kind of utopia they advocate; suggests a very strong connection between the Libertarian ideology and a Chicago style , ' Rational-Free-market ' economic one. My objection to the latter is more epistemological than political; as I believe a science of economics; is possible (ie consisting of objectively falsifiable hypothesis only.); with all questions of ends relegated back to philosophy and the ballot box; where such questions properly belong. The Rational-Free-market proposition that: " a free-market (ie without legislated price controls) will produce 'optimimum' social-ends when least regulated" is I contend "not even wrong" ( to quote a remark from Wolfgang Pauli ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong -firstly because 'optimimum' social-ends' is not even potentially empirically definable -secondly because consumer demand does not constitute any kind of plebliscite of a society's wants; being merely a record of what was chosen from what was on sale. Which is why 'rational producer/ retailers' pay for market-research ! I contend this central economic ideology traceable back to Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"; is a pathetic , irresponsible, fatalistic economic delusion.! ie a free-market needs to be constrained to whatever economic ends 'the ballot box decrees ! regards Rohan McLeod