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I always find it funny when getting into arguments with libertarians and they're like "The profit motive is great. See? Look at my phone" and my response is "Dude... I've written some of the code that's running on your phone, and I did it for free. It's a device built on open standards and the unpaid labour of 100,000 unpaid nerds. You are not making the argument that you think you're making".
"Ah, but there's some of it that was built for profit" oh, you mean the pieces that deliberately diverge from existing standards with the specific goal of creating a walled-garden captive market and breaking the ability for any future competitors to do a better job? Or do you mean the bits designed with the sole purpose of throwing copyright-infringing adverts in my face at any possible opportunity?
@jsbarretto they’re not opposed to volunteer effort. But every step of the manufacturing is massively subsidized.
@jsbarretto for all the rhetoric about competition, most libertarian / ancap thought leads directly to unbreakable oligarchic monopolies. see thiel's "competition is for losers".