Thanks, as a filthy statist I enjoyed the alternate perspective! I particularly appreciated you advocating for small, metis-rich, local initiatives. I think one aspect that makes libertarian positive policy weird in the way you describe is that they engage on the level of big government but what they propose is a framework for devolution of power to small government – e.g. hyperlocal zoning. I think this is important and I'm not saying libertarians should do less of it. However, I think there's also value in providing a libertarian model _to_ people who want to spin up small local initiatives: from where I'm standing, hyperlocal healthcare, schooling, justice all seem implausible and (frankly) unattractive, but maybe that's because nobody's ever shown me a good template for how it can be done. If a hypothetical libertarian public intellectual were to lay out the framework for how such initiatives could work, and if enough people tried them and found them an attractive alternative to centralised planning, you would then have something positive to gesture at when advocating for deregulation.
Thanks, as a filthy statist I enjoyed the alternate perspective! I particularly appreciated you advocating for small, metis-rich, local initiatives. I think one aspect that makes libertarian positive policy weird in the way you describe is that they engage on the level of big government but what they propose is a framework for devolution of power to small government – e.g. hyperlocal zoning. I think this is important and I'm not saying libertarians should do less of it. However, I think there's also value in providing a libertarian model _to_ people who want to spin up small local initiatives: from where I'm standing, hyperlocal healthcare, schooling, justice all seem implausible and (frankly) unattractive, but maybe that's because nobody's ever shown me a good template for how it can be done. If a hypothetical libertarian public intellectual were to lay out the framework for how such initiatives could work, and if enough people tried them and found them an attractive alternative to centralised planning, you would then have something positive to gesture at when advocating for deregulation.