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Michael Matulef
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Know Thyself | Everything Voluntary✌️ | Follow the Tao

Spontaneous order arises from the cumulative actions of individuals reacting to incentives and expressing their personal preferences within a framework of well-defined property rights.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-humility-spontaneous-order

Despite its political unpopularity, the economic downturn remains an inescapable presence on our journey, a path lined with reckless enthusiasm and the false promise of easily accessible credit.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WvAZxGevwSWuhUdfUtljN

Coercion is evil precisely because it eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

— Friedrich Hayek

In 1850, Frederic Bastiat wrote in his classic essay, “The Law,” that tariffs are a step toward socialism. In his words, “protectionism, socialism, and communism are basically the same plant in three different stages of its growth.” All three call for government to intervene in the marketplace to influence who gains and who loses.

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense (which is far from being the case), even then it couldn't be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

- Leo Tolstoy