Lonsdale is a good exmple of what would happen to law (if there even would be such a thing) in a libertarian society. Lonsdale is a plutocrat who, as the article details, lords it over legislatures who do not even have the money to do their own research. Lonsdale the billionaire presents them with a package, and lthey accept it because they don't have the money and time to come up with a package on their own, in many cases. Furthermore, Lonsdale (as with like many billionaires we are more familir with on MR like Thiel and Musk) has no idea what he is talking about. But perhaps most anti-libertarian is his carceral solution, which I would have thought is the kind of state-backed force that libertarians supposedly abhor
I queried deepseek about Lonsdale within the Circles of Hell context. The response:
Conclusion:
Dante reserves the deepest punishments for those who commit violence against their neighbors or who betray the trust of the weak. Because Lonsdale uses his immense wealth to pass laws that put people in jail for being poor, and because he does so while claiming "compassion," his place in the Seventh Circle (as a violent oppressor) or the Ninth Circle (as a betrayer of the vulnerable) would be most apt
So much for libertarianism