Hello all, this is my first post on the wonderful LvMI forums so please be gentle with me! Firstly, after graduating from university in June, I have been fascinated with free-market ideas (Milton Friedman started my inquisitiveness!) and I certainly feel that I’ve learnt a lot and my mind has becom…

I have tried such basic inquiry, but was accused by one guy of being a nihlist! Its supposedly assumed by everyone that we know what constitutes as small business and what as big business. But if not, allow someone else to decide that. That “someone else” being code for government.

I’m not overly impressed with that paper. The part about AE only proving, at most, a right to the parts involved in speech has merit, and it had occured to me before. But they are misunderstanding, it seems to me, the nature of HHH’s proposition in most of the rest. As I said, I am not yet totally …

I have tried such basic inquiry, but was accused by one guy of being a nihlist! I’m assuming that they have therefore already disproved nihilism to you? Strange, because Nihilism is essentially the Subjective Value Theory, which is in itself true. Its supposedly assumed by everyone that we know…

I don’t know his fetish for small businesses. I suspect he views “big” businesses as ipso facto evil. They’ve succeeded because they’re evil. Argument by assertion. I will try and rebuttal his argument and report back. This guy loves to have the last word - no matter how preposterous or ad hominem …

As you said, focus on the “unseen” aspect. “Big business” is likely seen by your social democrat as a big corporation producing consumer goods. But what about businesses selling producer goods, especially to smaller businesses? Are there small businesses that rely on the goods produced by big busin…

Thanks Michael J Green. Great example. I’ll push him on this. If he falls back on to syndicalist styled arguments over non-scarcity and how anything is possible if only the capitalist pigs were out of the equation, then I guess the discussion is over.

Another line of attack: Alright, tax big business. Then, you only have “good”, small business. However, if the small business is so good and at an advantage due to the tax, it will grow. If it is good enough, it will then become a big business. Should we then tax it? I suggest you have this argume…

Kinsella just gave me a link to his reply to Murphy and Callahan. After reading, I have to say I think he mowed down M and C’s arguments. It is a far more convincing paper, and frankly I think I am ready to commit to AE.

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I think we should take this to some other thread. I suggest this one or a new one.

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