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Unless you provide reasoning this comes across as needlessly snide.


The parent poster, a 99.99%ile brilliant engineer (seriously) and entrepreneur has a long history of posting libertarians talking points on any vaguely related topic.


> libertarians talking points

Frankly, I've haven't read much of any libertarian literature, nor touchstones like Ayn Rand. My opinions come simply from reading lots of history and economic books.

A seminal experience for me was touring East Berlin in 1969. The contrast with West Berlin was stark.


I'm not sure what you're trying to assert?

I'm not aware of a ile scale of brilliance. I also don't know why a history or libertarianism is relevant?

I just think that the comment wasn't constructive.


Here's one for you. It takes 10 government funded housing units to get one homeless person into housing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10511...

It's hard to conclude that this is an effective program.

Some discussion of this in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/housing-first-foments-homelessn...

A consistent reason why left wing programs fail is they do not take supply&demand into consideration.




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