by Tucker Carlson argues with a libertarian on why should the tax payer subsidise his workers with food stamps when he is the richest man in the world and can easily afford to pay them more. Any Peikoff says it's not Jeff Bezos fault that the government subsidizes his workers and the benefit should be done away with.Libertarians believe in the meritocracy and so to them if a person is poor then it's their own fault. And so if a person suffers because he is poor, and if he gets exploited by the wealthy, and if his life is miserable, it is of no concern to anyone else because he gets what he deserves. There seems to be no humanity in this viewpoint.The brain is neuroplastic and middle class and upper class children get better nutrition and a more intellectually stimulating environment which
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Libertarians believe in the meritocracy and so to them if a person is poor then it's their own fault. And so if a person suffers because he is poor, and if he gets exploited by the wealthy, and if his life is miserable, it is of no concern to anyone else because he gets what he deserves. There seems to be no humanity in this viewpoint.
The brain is neuroplastic and middle class and upper class children get better nutrition and a more intellectually stimulating environment which greatly increases intelligence and confidence. But the poorest children often don't get this chance and can go on to repeat what their parents did and so stay poor. Throw in learned helplessness, where the poorest people often think there is no point in trying to get ahead because they believe they will always fail, and you have a vicious circle which is difficult to break.
What sort of meritocracy is it when most libertarians have not been brought up in a very poor family and so got a massive leg up without doing anything for it? This leg up means they can ride on the backs of poorer people and live the good life.
The libertarians believe that all well if you leave the market alone without any government interference but this would create a very rich and powerful merchant class who will use their market power to forever force wages down. Every Chinese civilization collapsed because for the same reason, where a wealthy merchant class developed who then drove the middle class out of business, just like Jeff Bezos is doing today. Wages then collapsed and people lacked purchasing power to keep the economy going. Capitalism has a fault line and needs to be regulated.