Probably current singapore or 80s Hong Kong
* Overflowing with optimism and "can do" * Equal protection under the law no matter the origin * Max tax 15% for all * Education and health benefits for all (accepting always flaws somewhere) * Anti-corruption was effective (ICAC) * Straightforward process to become a voting legal immigrant for non-Chinese * Many people speaking English, various Chinese dialects, Tagalog and more * Springboard to helping adjacent countries modernize * Unparalleled Eastern and Western food and housing and sociability
I moved to San Francisco only because I was a techie and had a need to change the world. If there had been the Internet, I might still be there...
Isn’t Argentina basically the opposite?
It’s not so different from the old-school communists who claimed that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” is a necessary step towards the true freedom of mankind under proper Communism. Conveniently they were the ones in charge of the “temporary” dictatorship in this picture.
Libertarianism and communism are ideological siblings. Both fail time and time again, but to the believers it’s always someone else’s fault and the proper implementation of the ideology simply hasn’t been tried yet.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
“When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in”
But surely there’s a million reasons why these were not True Libertarians, they were just doing it wrong, and the ideology is actually sound. Just like with communism.