Capitalism needs a welfare state to survive
Even pretty staunch libertarians are willing to entertain the value of the state when it comes to the transition into post-scarcity markets, and even this transition into markets that net diminishing value from many human endeavors (as we are already seeing). I just think that most libertarian types, myself included, don&#x27;t want that to mean an overbearing bureaucratic system that necessarily creates perverse incentives and rations resources along politically contentious dimensions. Let us keep our markets, just help balance them. Universal basic income to keep the bottom in check, anti-monopoly, anti-collusion to keep the top in check, and then please fuck off. No affordable housing, no welfare, no social security, no food stamps, no shelters. Just give everyone cash and fuck off. If they want to create an authoritarian sub-state, or sibling-state, for the people that just cannot take care of themselves, despite all the necessary resources literally being deposited in their bank accounts, so be it, but don&#x27;t rope the rest of functional society into the moral authoritarian nightmare we&#x27;re currently already sinking into.