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My take is that he's a libertarian and everyone telling themselves he's not is just 100% COPING
He runs AND SEEMS TO OWN a self storage service, possibly THE most libertarian coded business you could own. Honestly that'd be enough to clock him as a libertarian if it weren't for all the IOUs and shit he's concerned about mid apocalypse
I'd have thought Big Tech was the most libertarian coded business - Manousos comes across as more of a devout Catholic, with his icon of the Lady of Mount Carmel in his MG (also the patron saint of the Colombian police force, maybe a hint to his backstory) and taking the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" to it's logical extreme.
The whole show is packed with allusions to Christianity (the hive abandoning Carol for specifically 40 days, Zosia taking her to a high place to go trainspotting later like the Mount of Temptation, Manousos referring to the hive as evil like the demons Legion, Kusimayu abandoning a lamb after getting joined, etc.)
I disagree. The most libertarian coded business is used car dealership!
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He's absolutely a libertarian crank. I actually think the entire show is based on Anthem, a novella by Ayn Rand. In Anthem, the not-too-distant future is a collectivist dystopia where the word "I" and the concept of individuality are banned (lol), and it's up to the freedom-loving individualist of a protagonist to set the world right by waking up all the communist sheep
The biggest mistake the Soviet Union made was stopping at Berlin.
The second biggest mistake the Soviet Union made was teaching Ayn Rand to read and write.