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Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

IP shouldn't exist at all, ideas are not rivalrous & person A should not be able to dictate what person B can do with their own physical property just because person A publically filed dibs on a certain pattern of arrangment first. Without active govt enforcement there would be no real IP anyway. But wealth earned belongs to the person who earned it & they are free to leave it to whoever they please, because it is theirs to give away. It would require active & violent efforts to seize & redistribute things from heirs.

IP is one of the things I think Ayn Rand got wrong. She also contradicts herself when it comes to advocating non-aggression while also supporting the idea of a night watchman state. Without taxation there is nothing to distinguish a govt from any other voluntarily supported service or charity that must compete for customers.

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frozear 1y ago

Maybe entrepreneurialism without the state is egalitarian enough. Problems arise when rich people start forming governments and making rules for the poors, it amplifies their economic power. Maybe libertarian/authoritarian thought is more relevant. Maybe left/right thought is irrelevant and outdated and will die with the boomers.

Anarchism was once the boogeyman to the powerful before the Bolsheviks. It was so much a threat that they actually changed it's meaning to a synonym of chaos.

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