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Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Logged into Facebook today...

Me: [goes to Facebook]

Me: [enters email & password]

Facebook: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies stoplights]

Facebook: "We sent a code to your gmail account"

Me: [goes to gmail]

Me: [enters email & password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies bridges]

Gmail: "We sent a code to your recovery email"

Me: [opens new gmail tab]

Me: [enters recovery email and password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies more stoplights]

Gmail: "Would you like to setup a recovery email?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for other gmail]

Me: [enters security code for other email login]

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for facebook]

Me: [enters security code for facebook]

Facebook: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "If you let us install this thing you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website!"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook! Also there's a much better experience if you let us install this thing and you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website! Have you changed your mind from 6 seconds ago?"

Me: "No."

...

This is not an exaggeration. The internet is broken.

Nostr.

Bitcoiners are open minded people who want better. That’s why Bitconers are thriving in general.

Replying to Avatar nicnym

https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

Anarchy means everything is Voluntary! Treat others the way you want to be treated!

Yes, this is where Rothbard brings up the Irish example. I’m listening to his History Of Economic Thought at the moment and in there he discusses the first known anarchist thinker in China, hundreds of years BC.

The government educates children. This is not good.

This is big. We need affordable and fixable transport.

Fees are shilling nuts

Maybe didn’t change me but Hemingway, The Old man And The Sea is one I always recommend.

Replying to Avatar walker

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors, and it never changed."

CAPITALISM by Ludwig von Mises, read out loud for you on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 as part of a six episode series I'm calling "Austrian Audible."

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This series will serve as a primer to the Austrian School of Economics. I will read each of Mises Six Lessons from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow:

1. Capitalism

2. Socialism

3. Interventionism

4. Inflation

5. Foreign Investment

6. Policies & Ideas

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I only started reading economics a couple of years ago and I would have never imagined that I would have. The thing is, it just makes so much sense.