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  • You’ve got a bit of circular reasoning going on there: Homeschool is inferior because it leads to lower income averages but then income matters so much that an education that doesn’t increase it as much must be inferior.

    Look, I’m not a homeschooling stan. I just don’t like bad logic or incentivizing antisocial behaviors. We probably agree on, like, 99% of this and my nitpick about half a sentence is a blip comparatively.



  • Both have a somewhat idealized view of human nature, specifically vis-a-vis power vacuums.

    But there are in fact both right- and left-libertatians. Right-libertarians more-or-less see people as a kind of business and think the government shouldn’t get in the way of businesses unless they’re engaged in unfair anti-competitive practices, because competition is the highest good. Left-libertatians see corporations as more-or-less hostile but useful entities that should be yoked to human interests, and that this kind of regulation is the role of government while leaving human individual behavior completely unregulated.

    Whereas anarchism is pretty much orthogonal to any economic axis. Ideally, there’s no entity to regulate economic forces if there’s no central currency, so who gets regulated and for what reason is an absent question. Corporations can’t exist under anarchism because they’re so clearly a predatory hierarchy that frankly I’m surprised we even allow them in regular society.

    So, uh, teal dear long-story-short, no, they’re incompatible world views because libertarianism presupposes power structures abhorrent to anarchism.







  • It’s a tool parents have to improve their child’s education, but it can also be abused to damage the child’s education. The state has an interest in regulating it and making sure children receiving it are still meeting educational benchmarks.

    I think it works best in tandem with public schooling rather than as a replacement, but I know most people talk about it strictly as an opposing option.