where can I see which apps support which nips?

Can you pin a note in nostr? #asknostr

There are 3 types of austrian economists. those who can count and those who can't.

#grownostr #jokestr

If we take Hayek's view of the price system as a system of telecommunications, one could imagine #Bitcoin as the most censorship-resistant and unmanipulable communication tool humanity has ever known or used. In other words, Bitcoin is nostrer than #Nostr!

"The most significant fact about this system is the economy of knowledge with which it operates, or how little the individual participants need to know in order to be able to take the right action. In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement."

F. A. #Hayek

#grownostr #austrianeconomics #fiat #economics

The core of Mises's Bureaucracy is this: the more power state bureaucracies hold, the less democratic the system becomes. Why? Because political bodies (like Congress) delegate decisions to external commissions. These commissions aren't elected by the people but by other bureaucrats, making them unaccountable to public welfare. This fosters irresponsibility and shifts toward totalitarianism—just as it did in Weimar Germany before Hitler’s rise.

Published in 1944 amid widespread socialist sentiment, Mises added a 1962 intro noting socialism’s decline in favor of interventionism. U.S. bureaucracy had grown but remained less pervasive than elsewhere, preserving liberalism. He argued trends change and America’s choices would influence the world—a prediction proven true in later decades.

#grownostr #mises #democracy #liberalism #bureaucracy #state #america

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2007/12/dexter_and_dost.html

History + Comedy = Rothbard

If anything is simultaneously obvious and brilliant, it is Rothbard’s insight that governments are glorified gangs of criminals. How can anyone who knows the basic facts of history disagree? If you strip virtually any chapter of world history down to a postcard, it’s a story of vicious murderers killing each other in order to enslave nearby civilians. Nearly every guy nicknamed “the Great” was a serial killer on a massive scale – and not the nice kind, either.

If all this is so obvious, why don’t most works of history have a Rothbardian flavor? The answer, in short, is that most historians are serious. When they tell the story of William the Conqueror, for example, they take a considered, pompous tone, and treat all the key historical players with respect. They’ve usually got their facts straight, of course. But they don’t want to write the “story of William the Mass Murderer,” so they briefly mention his body count, then move on to William’s land titling policy.

source: https://www.betonit.ai/p/history_comedyhtml

#grownostr #history #rothbard #libertarianism #state #war

Read the below argument of the great Murray in The Ethics of Liberty and tell me isn't he undoubtedly talking about Hoppe?

- It might be thought that the libertarian, the person committed to the "natural system of liberty" (in Adam Smith's phrase), almost by definition holds the goal of liberty as his highest political end. But this is often not true; for many libertarians, the desire for self-expression, or for bearing witness to the truth of the excellence of liberty, frequently takes precedence over the goal of the triumph of liberty in the real world. Yet surely, as will be seen further below, the victory of liberty will never come to pass unless the goal of victory in the real world takes precedence over more esthetic and passive considerations.

https://i.ibb.co/SX0mLkt/murray-rothbard-and-hans-hoppe.webp

#grownostr #rothbard #libertarianism #hoppe #anarchocapitalism #philosophy

According to the IQAir website, which examines the air quality in cities around the world, Tehran's air is four times more polluted than the burning Los Angeles at 4:30 am on Monday, January 11.

Earlier, the Minister of Health stated that "Iran loses about 50,000 people annually due to air pollution!" Just for the sake of comparison, according to HAMAS, Israel has killed 47000 Palestinians since October 7!

We're having a long-running Chernobyl and they're not even denying it as the Soviet did!!!

Climate normies should just fuck off and take a look at us. That's what happens when the state takes control of everything.

Here's Saif's tweet:

https://x.com/saifedean/status/1877717156420341885?mx=2

This entire battle between Hoppean Ancaps and Milei is indeed fun to follow. The argument "If Milei had defaulted on the debt, he wouldn't last a single month" is probably valid. On the other hand, if he fails to deliver on his promises — which he hasn't so far, and Hoppeans are right to point that out — it wouldn't end well for libertarianism.

#grownostr #liberty #debt #fiatstandard #argentina #milei #libertarianism

LMAO

for those who can't read Farsi, Our former king was just a little bit anti-commies. He used to let the bears rape commies :)))

#grownostr #iran #history

https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Ethics%20of%20Liberty%2020191108.pdf

Page 239 of the above link and Rothbard's crushing decisive blows to Mises's Utilitarianism! It's from The Ethics of Liberty.

If you wanna deeply investigate how fucked up a democratic fiat state could be, there's no better case study than Japan in 20th century

https://mises.org/quarterly-journal-austrian-economics/end-abe-administration-end-abenomics-books-past-and-present-japanese-political-economy

Also this: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6403k4d5u5t7c33gsavnz0e2tc2mdjhk7umsygwff5rwp4e8rjuqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyqdlrl4q5a64zssn3urqu3pauka8m8l6nprrlguz0ultk25tfv5tg09z8ke

#grownostr #fiatstates #fiathistory #democracy #debtcrisis #japan

Can't read German. What's this?

آیا متن باز است؟

According to the 2018 trustees’ report, Medicare faces a $37 trillion unfunded liability over the next 75 years, and Social Security $13 trillion. None of this is part of the $34 trillion U.S. debt as of 2024.

"But why worry? Taxpayers pay in now, then get paid later when they're old. Problem solved!" Now let’s look at reality:

1- Aging Population: In case anyone missed it, populations in most developed countries are aging fast. Fewer workers supporting more retirees. So the math here is simple: fewer people paying into the system, more people taking out. What could go wrong?

2- Rising Costs: Medical technology keeps advancing (good for health, bad for budgets), and people live longer than ever. Healthcare and pension costs grow faster than inflation or GDP. But hey, I’m sure "the rich" can foot the bill, right?

3- Economic Shocks: Tax revenue isn’t a guaranteed stream. A recession hits, revenue drops, and obligations like pensions and Medicare don’t magically shrink. So where does the money come from? Print it? Borrow more? Oh wait, we already maxed that strategy.

But sure, keep telling us that unfunded liabilities aren’t a problem. What’s another few trillion, anyway? It’s not like future taxpayers will mind footing the bill for today’s promises.

#grownostr #fiatstandard #debtcrisis #bitcoin #liberty

I’ve never been deeply drawn to mythology, but I’ve noticed the recurring theme of scarcity. In myths and ancient beliefs, there’s always a limited number of divine beings or supernatural forces shaping existence. From the singular, all-powerful gods of monotheistic traditions to the pantheons of ancient Greece or Norse mythology, these figures are always finite.

This scarcity is what made myths so captivating. Imagine if there were thousands of Zeuses or Thors—what would happen to the sense of wonder? The uniqueness would fade, and with it, the awe that draws people to these stories.

For the first time in human history, though, we have something in the material world that’s provably scarce—and yet, some people still fail to appreciate its beauty!

#grownostr #bitcoin #scarcity

So, when people like Hoppe or Curtis Yarvin discuss abolishing democracy and replacing it with monarchies, what’s their proposed method? Do they envision something like a majority vote in a town to sell all the land to a corporation, or how would it work? any articles or sources on that?

#asknostr #grownostr #monarchism #anarchism #anarchocapitalism #libertarianism

Google "Denmark cow burp tax" and you won't believe it!!!

#grownostr #state