Hi,im asking a question about privatization,when i ask people about privatization,they say something like that :

• Man,listen,privatization bad,it makes monopolies and oligopolies,rich guys capture market and makes prices higher.

Is it true? How can you debunk this thesis?

rational self-interest is often branded with a No True Scotsman fallacy because failures of self-interest are dismissed as “not truly rational.” This prevents real scrutiny of whether self-interest actually leads to a just and prosperous society. By redefining the term every time a problem arises, the theory loses explanatory power and becomes an ideological assertion rather than a falsifiable claim.

How do objectivists and the adjacent lot of comparable thinkers navigate this?

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I'll try to reply to you and talk about it. Be civil please.

Some people, Libertarians, love the idea of a small, limited government, one that just “protects rights” and “stays out of the way.” But the moment you allow any government, it must track, fund, and enforce its own existence. Even a so-called “minimal” state requires all of this:

• Taxation or mandatory funding → You're going to need an IRS for tracking finances.
• Tracking population & jurisdiction → You have to track those who are supposed to pay.
• Border control → If people have to pay to support small government, you'll need to track who's coming in so they can be entered into the database.
• Law enforcement & courts → Might as well throw in maintenance crews, groundskeepers, security.
• Prisons or consequences for non-compliance → If a citizen refuses to fund the system, in the hole you go.
• A government registry → How exactly are open borders going to work if people can just come in and not pay their share?
• Defense & military obligations → Military bases, roads to transport troops, might as well add some border security to detect threats.

A limited government still requires tracking, coercion, and infrastructure, meaning it’s not actually limited at all. Once you justify even the smallest state, you justify all the mechanisms that make it grow. If you're already doing those parts, what's a little more, right?

The only truly limited government is no government at all.

For the past decade I've heard so many people complain on how a private corporation censoring people was a breach of the first amendment (it's not).

Now however, 2 members of the administration are the ACTUAL owners of social media sites. We have the President himself with Truth Social.

We have Elon with X.

Would every act of censorship now on those two sites actually be a first amendment violation now?

I haven't seen a single other soul mention this. I think it's a pretty big blindspot for the 1A crowd.

EDIT: Boy, a lot of people are much more concerned about my account age than billionaire members of the government owning social media.

Hypothetically

You could add a random Amendment into the Constitution of the united States or your own Country.

What are you putting? Curious to hear yalls answers

Morality and fairness are fantasy words. They are egoistic demands on nature. They are far from rights and attempt to supercede rights in favor of magical blessings and protections.

A state should enforce rights and secure safety. That's about it. You have the right to your body, production and property.

It shouldn't try to enforce the fantasy of fairness. The results are obvious:

Everyone should have the right to someone else's body; vaccine mandates and abortion laws.

Everybody should have the right to else's production; welfare, food, healthcare.

Everyone should have the right to someone else's property; income tax, death tax, regulations.

This is the moral game. It is unwinnable. Only through individualism are rights protected and progress made.

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Don't track us as we don't track our uncollaterized debtor.

Don't lead us to libtardism but keep us away from commies.

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They’re making them to crash into passenger airliners that have people just living out their lives.

Fuck governments ugh such waste, such needless deaths

For those who aren’t aware

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-washington-dc-01-29-25/index.html

https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/tech/meta-agrees-to-pay-25m-to-settle-lawsuit-from-trump-after-jan-6-suspension/