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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL618GZhz39ntE-fgVJncR69IsjMcMKPSl
Most anti-government revolutions, protests and movements also tend to make a region revert back to previous conditions or likely leave them worse off than before because they are moved by bad, incomplete or inconsistent ideas.
Bitcoin is a good idea. It will win and is winning without the need for violence. It's unique like that.
Natural rights, sound money, free speech, private property, voluntary contracts, free markets, free banking, common law, economic specialization, division of labour, self-ownership, right to self-defense, freedom of trade, natural justice are good ideas.
Economic planning, price controls, central banking, fiat money, forced wealth redistribution, arbitrary expropriation of property, egalitarianism, state-granted monopolies, positive law and social justice are bad ideas.
It's not some inevitable 'power vacuum' that a state fills.
It's a vacuum of good ideas about how humans ought to organize, interact, cooperate and resolve conflict that get filled by bad ideas about the same.
The extent to which the people in a region adopt a good idea or a bad idea determines their standard of living, level of civility, economic advancement, stability, peace and prosperity. I'd go out on a limb and add moral and spiritual advancement as well.
People in civilised and advanced economies, societies and cultures are lucky enough that they can peacefully advocate for the good ideas without starting from scratch, since they are already recognised and widely accepted to a certain extent, atleast implicitly.
Those who aren't as fortunate will have to do a lot more intellectual brunt work. Possibly, they would face some degree of violence and threat to their livelihood as well.
Thus, it isn't surprising that certain regions remain unstable, poor and uncivilised no matter what, while others do fine in this regard.
It's always the ideas that make or break a society.
H/T Murray Rothbard
I'm unable to zap you. Zapped myself accidentally instead 😂
Is your LN address working?
Something that Libertarians (and Bitcoiners) can be rightly made fun of for is the fact that those who believe in these things don't take to the streets or participate in picketing or violent revolutions. I personally admire it and like it, but it can definitely be laughed at.
Could be because of the fact that they don't want the means to contradict the ends. How can one be an advocate of the non-aggression principle while aggressing on a peaceful individual's person and property? They can't.
And they know that mobs are never rational in how they go about things, hence they do not form one.
Emotional appeals are often avoided because, being rationalists, they understand that emotions muddle the process of arriving at the truth.
Instead, they write, publish and say a lot of words through podcasts, lectures, books, debates, discussions, articles and conferences. It's the right way to go, but will take an enormous amount of time, energy, patience and investment.
Above all, since all of this is a low time preference endeavour, the kind of people who would be receptive to libertarian ideas are also often the kind who won't protest in the streets or participate in violent revolutions, strikes or picketing.
They're too busy with their jobs, businesses, families, kids, side hustles, main hustles, moonlighting, earning, saving, building, etc.
It's like God is making fun of us 🤣
Every point spot on except the second one. A priori truths exist. A posteriori observation and evidence is not the only method of arriving at the truth.
No amount of evidence is going to convince me that natural rights don't exist, that free speech is conditional or that justice is anything the mob decides it to be.
Resharing this brilliant lecture from Mises:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF40oMpW2lE
Text version:
https://mises.org/online-book/liberty-and-property/liberty-property
Any group claiming to speak for the 'masses'/'the common man', and against cronyism, ought to be radical proponents of free markets, laissez-faire, tax scrapping, deregulation and total privatization. Especially those who call themselves 'liberators of the people'. The government is the ultimate cause of enslavement, cronyism and inequality.
They ought to be advocating for introducing market competition, private property and abolishing state-granted monopoly privileges in every walk of life. This was the original left wing position, because no single entity or human being can sustain their position on top in a free market without providing useful services that the masses require and demand. They can only do so with the help of the government.
Quote from the lecture:
"Under capitalism, private property of the factors of production is a social function. The entrepreneurs, capitalists, and land owners are mandataries, as it were, of the consumers, and their mandate is revocable. In order to be rich, it is not sufficient to have once saved and accumulated capital. It is necessary to invest it again and again in those lines in which it best fills the wants of the consumers. The market process is a daily repeated plebiscite, and it ejects inevitably from the ranks of profitable people those who do not employ their property according to the orders given by the public."
* Peacock sounds intensify *
Gold standard making a comeback?
Unless fiat currencies are going back to a fully-backed Rothbardian gold standard with market driven interest rates, full reserves, involving existing currencies simply representing physical or digital claims on units of gold,
Nope.
This tree is missing Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Robert Murphy, Patrick Newman, Tom DiLorenzo, Jonathan Newman, Mark Thornton and David Gordon, who would all come under Murray Rothbard.
'The Fallacies of Public Finance' by Walter Block
Missed it!
Which teams were they?
Just found out that a streaming platform here in India has rights to the NFL. Kinda want to watch a little bit.
Where do I start? Like who do I keep an eye on? Underdogs, favourites, rivalries, history, etc.
The joy of clicking on those numbers on the top right-hand corner of your feed on Nostur and catching up with all the posts you missed 🤌
Such a simple but amazing feature
Haha yeah you're right
But my point was that there seemed to be a sense that social experience was always going to be driven by walled gardens, ads and algorithms. Nostr is going to disrupt this in a big way.
Similarly, there's a sense now that trusted third parties at the ISP-level are always going to exist. Risk includes being captured by the state. I wonder what that's going to look like in 18 years.
Another Sinner v Alacaraz banger Sunday
Can watch it just for Sinner's backhand scorchers
Parks and Rec is a great show
Just got around to bingeing it