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NASA, ESA, and all the other space agencies might disagree with you here.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30254/this-isnt-a-sci-...
Lots of people from other states, including Texas, in that list too. It wasn't just a California / Left issue.
Given you don't have details on the quality of the item you are buying how do you accomplish that?
It isn't envy some feel when they can't afford medical care for themselves and those they care about. This applies to a lot of things in additional to medical care.
If they ultra wealthy lived under the same system as everyone else then perhaps, but they don't. They have oversized influence of most every aspect of our lives which isn't conducive for a stable democracy.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/FLANCCI-Blocking-Stickers-Dimming-Bla...
[1] "Seeing “the better way” to disseminate and educate, the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was established on December 12, 1991 by Dr. Vincent and several dedicated colleagues and LQTS family members, for the purpose of helping to prevent sudden and unexpected cardiac death in children and in young adults."
This isn't a binary fail / no fail condition.
I would argue that previous generations had such issues as well but they just didn't get talked about as much. It would help explain some of the damn the long term all that matters is the next year / six months type of thinking.
A decent amount of libertarian ideas run into issues like this where the assumption is that current non-libertarian systems will keep them in check but this sort of mixed system isn't what a large segment of libertarians appear to want.
If you combine the libertarian idea that a property owner can fully control what happens to their property along with the idea that the right to contract is absolute what happens when the entity that owns the road in front of my home says I can no longer use it unless I shop only at his stores?
A lot of libertarian ideas simply do not work when combined together due to human nature to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
How so?
The people being exposed to all this aren't being compensated in any way, any medical problems or other issues they have to fully pay for themselves.
Might be different if they got taken care of.