" - - - He’s an Ayn Rand libertarian. On ideological grounds, he doesn’t believe that government action can help. He thinks regulation makes things worse. When asked by an Oxford Union audience member about how he 'would fix' the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), he said we need to get over our 'Stockholm syndrome' as a country and privatize it already. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, even billionaires. But it’s a fringe ideology. And it’s one that could do a huge amount of harm."
I have posted many times on the vapid ideas of libertarianism. Understand that it is a major factor in the harm from the Republican Party. Click on the link below for a refutation of libertarianism by a respected member of an existential risk group:
There’s no libertarian approach to preventing the end of the world
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