It should never be a surprise that government will do a poor, even nightmarish job when it declares itself the only entity that can oversee what it forces people into participating in.
Month: July 2017
Collectivism is the Antithesis of Libertarianism
Judging or denigrating individuals on the basis of collectivist concepts (such as race, birthplace, nationality, citizenship, etc.) is not just ignorant, it’s a dangerous lie which serves as the pretext for war, genocide, and all manner of evils.
Counterfeit “Laws” Create a Market for Lawyers
If a law is such that you have to look it up to see what it says; to see what it says you are allowed to do (or prohibited from doing), it’s not a real law.
Lessons from Building Praxis – Part 8
Alright, the company is real now. But your product requires some resources that only come when you have commitments from customers… and customers require a product before they’ll commit to anything. It might be time to sell something you don’t yet have so you can get the resources necessary to build it.
Advocacy of Peaceful Transactions
There is no right to force another person to provide goods or services. How can it be about “freedom,” then, when it’s someone imposing his “freedom” on another, who will be beaten and jailed for peacefully declining business?
Words Poorly Used #96 — Victims
POTUS, this one and each of the foregoing 44, loves to trot out victims. But, it’s not difficult to find people screwed by government programs. It’s a feature, not a bug.
Privacy: J. Edgar’s Not The Hoover You Need to Worry About Anymore
In the latest phase of our frenzied technological advancement, it’s clear that yes, our gadgets do collect and use more and more information about us, and that that information progressively ramifies across more, bigger, and more integrated networks. The bigger question: Is it worth it? The answer: It depends.
Statist Projection
Anarchy doesn’t preclude working with others; only ruling others or letting them rule you. Yet, I can’t begin to count the number of times a statist has said something to the effect of “anarchy is anti-social” or “anarchists can’t get along with others.”
Math Conundrum
Given the profundity of their differences, how could you devise rules that would separate two uniquely born creatures for purposes of making one a master and the other a slave? How do you decide that the person with the redder skin must forfeit land to the person with less red skin? Color itself, if not infinitely variable, has as many possibilities as there are living individuals on the Earth.
Lessons from Building Praxis – Part 7
If your market includes everyone, it includes no one. I knew I’d do better with a tighter market. Ideally, as Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One, a tiny niche I could monopolize. But even this was broad enough for me to lose focus. The real break-through for choosing actions to get traction came when I got down to the smallest unit possible.