Michael Matulef
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How to Vote for Liberty
My latest piece with Mises
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-vote-liberty
The more the state "plans," the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
- Hayek
Bitcoin Audible Read_850 - Three Doors, Which Will Bitcoin Choose?
@Shinobi
@Guy Swann
Bitcoin Audible • Read_850 - Three Doors, Which Will Bitcoin Choose? • Listen on Fountain
"A victory in revolution doesn’t come free or easy. For Bitcoin to really do what many of us hope it can, it’s really necessary at the end of t...
The Beauty and Importance of Comparative Advantage
Fountain
Bob Murphy Show • Ep. 352 The Beauty and Importance of Comparative Advantage • Listen on Fountain
Bob goes solo to explain Adam Smith's absolute advantage versus David Ricardo's comparative advantage. This important concept underpins civilizatio...
It seems almost as if we did not want to understand the development which has produced totalitarianism because such an understanding might destroy some of the dearest illusions to which we are determined to cling.
— Friedrich Hayek
Bitcoin Is Money For Heroes with @Guy Swann
@TFTC
@Marty Bent
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast • #545: Bitcoin Is Money For Heroes with Guy Swann • Listen on Fountain
Marty sits down with Guy Swann to discuss how bitcoin is helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Guy on Twitter: https://x.com/theguyswann
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
- Robert Heinlein
Today, little is left of this ethic of private property and its anti-government vigilance. Although they now take place on a much grander scale, governmental appropriations of private property owners are overwhelmingly regarded as legitimate. There is no longer a general public opinion that regards government as an antisocial institution based on coercion and unjust property acquisitions, to be opposed and ridiculed everywhere and at all times on principled grounds. No longer is it generally regarded as morally despicable to propagate or, even worse, to actively participate in the enforcement of acts of expropriation, and no longer is it the general opinion that one would not have any private dealings whatsoever with people who engaged in such activities.
On the contrary, instead of being laughed off the stage or met with open hostility or passive indignation, such people are respected as decent and honest men. The politician who actively supports a continuation of the ongoing system of non-contractual property taxation and regulation or who even demands its expansion is treated everywhere with respect, rather than contempt. The intellectual who justifies taxation and regulation receives recognition as a deep and profound thinker in the public eye, instead of being exposed as an intellectual fraud. The IRS agent is regarded as a man doing a job just as legitimate as yours and mine, and not as an outcast that no one wishes to have as a relative, friend, or neighbor.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Jason Fry Plans for Peace By Preparing for National Divorce
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Bob Murphy Show • Ep. 350 Jason Fry Plans for Peace By Preparing for National Divorce • Listen on Fountain
Jason Fry discusses his new book, making the case for a peaceful secession.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version...
Deep thinkers
Although Western regimes like the United States like to talk a lot about self-determination for others outside the US itself, the regime and its supporters steadfastly deny that the nation contains any minority groups—ideological, religious, or otherwise—that ought to be granted autonomy in the fashion of colonized populations in Africa or Asia. Even when the Left emphasizes the existence of “oppressed minorities” the answer always lies in a larger, more active regime, and in promises of more democracy.
- Ryan McMaken