Point was that despite repeated successes with this style of investment the libhurdurians still insist it’s a bad idea, totally blind to the fact that lassaiz affaire is just as prone to degeneration. It’s ideology as much as any other approach and when you find people insisting on it without any concrete examples it’s just plain ideology you’re dealing with and there’s just no point wasting your time.
I'm a libhurdurian and I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. A public goods argument can be made for strategic investments.
I also don't think it's been conclusively shown that there have been "repeated successes with this style of investment". Demonstrating that would require knowing what the opportunity cost of the spending for these projects was, which is impossible. Claiming it's an open-and-shut case that these kinds of investments will yield positive results is just as ideological as you accuse dissenters of being.
I’m not claiming it’s open and shut. Every time something like this comes around you have all these guys giving out. I don’t say free market doesn’t work in all cases but just that it doesn’t work in all cases. Libertarianism is a dead end. Also BSD Unix.
Your earlier statement, that "lassaiz affaire is just as prone to degeneration" is just as ideological as anything you responded to. Neither of you have proven your case. It's entirely possible that you are right, and there's a factual basis for your assertion. It's also entirely possible that the party you are in opposition to is right, and there's a factual basis for theirs.
Neither point has been supported in this discussion with anything beyond rhetoric.
