Rights that someone else has to provide cannot he rights. You have no right to anyone else's time or labor (that would be slavery). You must trade value for value. All natural rights are negative rights.

You own yourself

You exist in time:

Past, present, future

When someone steals from you they are taking the product of your past & retroactively enslaving you. You have a right to own the things you have produced or that you earned & traded for.

When someone attempts to coerce or enslave you they are stealing your present. You have the right to live & speak & act, so long as it doesn't involve coercion or enslavement of others.

When someone murders you they are stealing your future. You have a right to live so long as you can keep yourself alive.

No person may initiate violence or theft or fraud. Beyond that there can be no other rights. You are not entitled to leisure, certain living standards, education, or food or housing. Those things cannot be guaranteed. A guarantee would have to be provided by someone else. If others failed to provide you with any of those you would have to initiate coercion to enforce such "rights."

If someone violates your natural negative rights by stealing from you or defrauding or engaging in coercion then they have lowered the interaction into the sub-rational animal realm & can be responded to as though they are a violent animal that one must fend off or destroy.

These basic moral principles are prerequesites to a civilized society. You cannot add rights as a way to advance society. You can only corrupt the foundation on which an advanced society is built & destroy individual liberty in the process.

Attempting to change or add positive foundational rights is like an extreme sort of layer violation in a complex computer architecture. The foundation must be fixed & unchanging with protection of the negative rights of individuals as the only task.

Sound money prevents the erosion of the value of one's past efforts & facilitates fair trades, which is another huge part that is needed to build a healthy society.

The productivity unlocked by the freedom created via negative rights & sound money can eventually create incredibly high living standards for everyone. Education can be free, as it mostly already is with internet access. All sorts of things can be free to the degree we can build economically sustainable businesses to provide them by generating revenue in other ways. But the need to exchange value for value never goes away. There is no "post scarcity" society. We can only aim to understand scarcity so well that we get extremely good at working around it.

> Nobody knows whether gold or #Bitcoin will ultimately emerge victorious in the ultimate competition to be the world’s best money.

Expectations are pre-meditated resentments

asking for a friend

We sacrificed everything for the S&P 500. Thank God the plebs finally have an escape hatch.

Prussian schooling? You've lost me.

The way she annunciates ' cat-e-gor-y' inspires me to commit violence.

I just don't have any context. What is this meeting and why?

Seeing this everywhere, can't make sense of it.

Yes, fraud & lies, particularly those resulting in physical or material harm should absolutely be grounds for restitution.

IP should exist to whatever degree that clear identification via branding or trademarks is necessary to keep people honest.

Organizations like "Komen for the Cure" who go around suing other charitable orgs for using different colored ribbons & "for the cure" in their own slogans is kind of ridiculous though.

The person donating or purchasing the item should be the one to seek restitution because producers charging different prices are not stealing anything from their competition, they are only harming or misleading customers. No producer is guarateed future sales so nothing has been stolen when a copycat enters the market. If the customer believed they were buying the genuine item maybe the restitution should be that the fraudulent company be required to purchase the real item from the original company.