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[–] saintPirelli 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

European here. There are no relevant Libertarian movements at all here. I feel like in Europe there are a lot of social axioms that a vast majority believe in (or at least pretend to believe in). Nuclear power plants are bad. Everything right-wing is evil. The Catholic church is retrogressive at best and all priests are child molesters. Global warming. Immigration per se is a good thing. Guns are bad. A tightly knitted social net is important because poverty can hit anybody at any time through no fault of their own. You get the idea. When so many people are convinced by the same thing, even though there are very obviously valid counter arguments, that rings my alarm bells and sometimes, not always, I find myself on the other side of what is "socially acceptable".

Poverty is the result of the capitalist society we live in is another one of those axioms that I - in the heat of puberty - had kind of forgotten to critically question. I can remember finding the Facebook-Page "Capitalism" and was shocked by how many people were "Liking" it. I have never met a single person who defended capitalism so I assumed it was either some kind of dark humour or the same way I can't explain why some people are satanist and willingly choose to follow evil. Then I realised that I had no idea what capitalism actually means, read up on it and here I am.

Now I work for the government and see how inefficient it is and how it disrupts those willing to produce first hand every day.