Aug 23, 2024
Yes, but that's the extreme absolute of Rothbard's strawman, that the losers should be raised to the level of the tall poppies or billionaires. An absolute egalitarian would say everyone should have an identical amount of money, so no losers or winners, and no workers or owners in the capitalist sense. This would be communism rather than just social democracy. And even in communism, political differences appear. So this libertarian's notion of egalitarianism is a boogeyman.