or an economist (like a milton friedman who has a lot of pull in the field of economic thought.)
Why or why not? what avenues would you take with that position to promote AE and/or liberty.
I’d really like people’s opinion on being an attorney. Its a way that no one here really talks about in promoting liberty. I assume people here dont talk about it in the same sense we dont promote becoming a politician, but i think it is very different. You can be an ancap and not compromise your morals right? and its also not near the impossible uphill battle of being a politician. A single case can have HUGE implications throughout a whole state or even the country. There are so many unconstitutional laws that you can have a LONG successful career (with many small victories)
Or if there is a profession that you think has a great ability to change the world please add to the list.
a ghandi like activist starving himself to death until they legalize drugs, allow gold to compete with the dollar, or whatever else an AE activist would starve himself to death for.
Limit your choices to the realm of plausibility, so no saying President of the US or God. Lets be somewhat realistic.
my knee jerk reaction was ‘obviously’ the billionaire too, but you also have to spend your career ‘not promoting’ liberty. Where an economist or a lawyer will spend his whole career fighting it. The billionaire would have spend many many years becoming the billionaire. The 2012 elections cost 2.6 billion (something like that) and most of the money was spent in the battle grounds states. So a billionaire’s money really doesnt go THAT far in the scheme of things. His word is probably worth more.
A large corporation deals with 10s of billions annually and have much more money than a billionaire. Though their spectrum wouldnt be as wide as individual billionaire (since their actions would be towards benefiting only the company), their actions in their niche of the market is powerful. The CEO of Exxon uses a billionaires net worth as coasters.
billionary entrepreneur can be the ceo of a large corporation so that is two in one.
you’re right, but when i say entrepreneur I am more asking along the lines of a venture capitalist or something like that. Someone who did whatever to make his money and now out of that business just invests or owns many small businesses. and when i say CEO i mean along the lines of climbing your way up the corporate ladder.
Novelist would be one too. I think that billionaire from your list is most influencial, because he can fund everything else. But that doesn’t mean you should aim for that, if that’s what you were thinking. It’s hard to become billionaire, and different paths suit differently for different people.
i think liberty promoted through the media gives the venture capitalist many avenues for many different types of media.
i don’t think elections are a good way to promote liberty, it has to come more from the family or community or educational level.
venture capitalists can put together programs that engage people and spread and build in a more natural way than spending money on advirtisements or rich dinners.
liberty needs to be promoted through expirences that create positive reactions and imprints on the minds of people.
perhaps this depends on what it means to promote liberty, enterprenour schools that involves each student starting a business and being mentored is a way i think can promote liberty, something that involves incubation and viral growth of media seems like a way to go.
maybe something that could work is a business that helps each person be a teacher to someone else to develup some talant both are interested in.
Well I’m just going to throw out all the relevant positions which I can think of even if they’ve been named… Because I totally thought of them first. In no particular order and assuming you can avoid from gouging your eyes out:
Public Servant (anything but a soldier)
Journalist
Writer (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
News Reporter
Rich Person (any ilk)
Economist
Professor (anything political)
Politician
Celebrity
Parent (a good one)
Social Entrepreneur/Anything Dealing with Charity
Climatologist/Environmentalist (anything along these lines)
Banker
Health Care Professional
Film Maker
Notice that I put down many professions in which you can expose how the government f***s that industry up.
Ah. I knew it. Freaking New Yorkers, always coming down here during the winter and complaining about how cold it is up there and how hot it is down here, while at the same time being rude to everyone.
And hmm, the Church of Mises sounds…interesting, but it makes me automatically think of that notion that makes people think libertarianism is “cultish.”
Last time I went further south than Maryland I got wicked awful sunburn. It didn’t make me want to go down there again any time soon. And also, if I were a true Rude New Yorker wouldn’t I be much more inclined to swear?
What do you mean by “religious”? If you mean do I attend church, no. If you mean do I believe the vast majority of theological doctrines out there? No.
Hmm, maybe so. But you just tell your New Yorker pals to quit coming down here to New Cuba. I gots my shotgun ‘n’ my moonshine ‘n’ my dog righta-here’s ‘n’ I’ll be waitin’ on ‘em, so you justa tellin’ 'em that, sommers.
