Hello all, I’ve read books by Hayek and Mises from cover to cover and underlined the parts I liked best (there were many), but honestly, there are many aspects of right-wing libertarianism which frankly baffle me. It’s not so much that I agree or disagree, it’s that I’m not sure I understand the ar…

On the note of Carlos Slim, you can’t equate personal wealth with GDP. To use accounting terminology, whereas wealth is a stock, GDP is a flow. A more appropriate comparison would be Slim’s yearly profits with GDP, or his personal wealth with the total wealth of society.

then you have a gov’t. you answered your own question

then you have a gov’t. you answered your own question I dont understand your post, wilderness. Are you saying that it is indeed inevitable? And if it isn’t, please explain why not.

I think the whole idea of PDAs is laughable. Just like slavery pretty much disappeared pretty quickly once people understood that it is wrong to own another human being, governments will disappear pretty quickly once people recognize that taxation is extortion and therefore wrong. Even before all t…

then you have a gov’t. you answered your own question I dont understand your post, wilderness. Are you saying that it is indeed inevitable? And if it isn’t, please explain why not. I wasn’t saying it was inevitable. I mean you gave a story about a guy and then said he made gov’t. All of this…

[image] On the nature of power Political Theory To answer a frequent question such as “why wouldn’t a gang take over” it is necessary to have a clear idea not only of what force is but what power is, a disequilibrium of force. Power comes in three classes of in…

Is the alleged privately owned Fed (as the socialists will insist it is) a good refutation to free banking? It is enough that you say no for you to reexamine the Machiavellian mercenaries analogy. I don’t want to have a discussion on mercenaries. Maybe it deserves another thread, but it is enough t…

In a free market there would be no drug gangs since for about $80 you could buy an ounce of cocaine or kilo of marijuana which would last most folks a long long time (maybe a week if you were John Belushi or Bob Marley) PDAs would become successful for providing defense not aggression. Free market…

Which is why we need government roads, government water and sewer system, government regulatory agencies, and government healthcare… All because we are living in a Greek tragedy. You misunderstand. I am not saying that is why we NEED govts. I am saying that is why THEY WILL SPROUT UP AGAIN AND A…

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