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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".
@jsbarretto You should, perhaps, differentiate between economic libertarianism - which is what you're refuting - & social libertarianism. The latter argues that people should be allowed to do as they please, as long as what they're doing doesn't harm anyone else - if it harms themselves, that's their look-out! Thus all laws against personal use of recreational drugs should be repealed - even the hard ones, like heroin & cocaine. See J.S. Mill, "On Liberty" (1859).
@rmblaber1956 This is a random mastodon post I made while eating my breakfast while thinking back to a conversation I had more than a year ago, not a dissertation paper. "Libertarian" meaning "libertarian right" is pretty common parlance on the interwebs. Libertarian-left people tend to refer to themselves with other terms (anarcho-, democratic*, etc.) or otherwise specify the 'left' part.