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That's Marxism for ya: "oppressor" bad, "oppressed" good.

Some people stay that way the whole life 😁

Many bitcoiners are statists.

#Bitcoin is a surveillance tech, all your onchain transactions stay available for everyone to read forever.

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Where do natural rights come from?

A few of my basic assumptions:

1. Natural rights are inherent.

Ethical principles must preceed governments since we need those principles to evaluate if a government is legitimate or not.

It is clear that a government cannot objectively measure its own legitimacy or determine when/if it has transformed into a totalitarian state.

2. We rely on our reasoning to determine which ethical principles are aligned with life, liberty and prosperity.

Our reasoning capacity can only function as an extension of our sovereign existence qua free men and women. Free individual agency is an embodiment of decentralization; sovereign decisionmaking.

3. Every person must be assumed to be born free and sovereign. If this was not the state of things, slavery would  reign and no rights would exist. Under such circumstances any form of government would be illegitimate.

Since every individual is born sovereign, each person own themselves, their minds, decisionmaking and the fruits of their labor.

John Locke (1690):

"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his.

(Two Treatises of Government; book 2, chapter 5.27, page 130)

4. Since we own the fruits of our labor, we must be free to buy, own, transfer, sell and exchange our property as we see fit, hence free trade.

If you need the permission of a third party in regards to how you manage your property, your property rights have been abolished and need to be re-instated.

5. As we depend on communication to live, to invent solutions and improve our conditions, solve problems, error-correct and vocalize that which harms us or which may cause harm, we must have free speech in order to exist, prosper and to maintain individual sovereignty.

In conclusion, if any of these principles are undermined, the responsible government must be determined to be illegitimate.

#Liberty #Freedom #Minarchism #LimitedGovernment #HumanRights #NaturalRights #JohnLocke #Objectivism #AynRand

There is no such thing as a legitimate government. Not unless every governed person explicitly agrees to be governed, which is impossible on a larger scale.

A simple idea for the critics of the #freeMarket: Your criticism usually points to a business opportunity.

If you believe that prices are too high because of #corporate #greed, it should be easy to start the same kind of #business while undercutting the #prices of the competition.

If you believe that #women really make 80% for the same job, it should be easy to start a new company, pay them 90%, steal all the #female talent from the competion and make a big #profit.

You could prove your point and become rich while doing it. Of course, if you tried this, you would actually realize that your opinions were wrong.

Also funny, how he hates on Apple, Google, etc., but Blackrock and co. are apparently okay dokey.

There's no such thing as trickle down economics. It's a leftist strawman.

Are you trying to scare me away from #bitcoin? 😄