As the FCC considers repealing the 2015 Net Neutrality rule, its supporters are desperate to associate bad things with its absence. So desperate that Demand Progress is advertising examples of Net Neutrality as violations of Net Neutrality.
Tag: markets
Words Poorly Used #97 — Market Failure
If you see what looks like a market failure, it is, in fact, the failure of a previously attempted market intervention.
Crops, Currency, and Crypto
Peoples in places with a single staple grain, harvested at the same time once each year, were easy for states to subjugate and coerce. Partly for this reason, most humans resisted extensive grain farming, even several thousand years after it had been invented, and opted instead for what Scott calls a complex ‘web’ of nutrients.
Suit, Robe, or Uniform: Does it Matter What Criminals Wear?
My bias aside, we shouldn’t believe that all business people strictly follow free market principles. Perhaps, even, most of them don’t. Who knows? What I do know is that every single person is capable of behaving in ways contrary to voluntaryism, and a strong majority of us have at some point in our lives.
Markets are Amoral, and Inevitable
The market is nothing more than individuals using each other to satisfy their own desires. It just so happens that in the vast majority of cases, people can satisfy their desires in ways which are mutually beneficial.
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.
Did Free Markets Create Government?
At first thought this claim might seem true: Governments were created by the free market. I mean, if governments exist, and they didn’t before, then the free market must have created them, right?
Smoking at the Skunk Works
What possible difference could it make that Musk and Zuckerberg don’t see eye to eye on artificial intelligence? Their repartee has plenty of artificiality and no intelligence.
Alternative Markets Saved Me a Boatload
I’m sitting here in the Salt Lake City airport about to board a flight to Phoenix to join a startup poised to disrupt the foreign/crypto exchange and savings markets.
How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property
I’d been solidly libertarian for many years the first time I gave thought to “intellectual property” (copyrights and patents) at all. Someone mentioned the protection of property, including intellectual property, as the root of prosperity and freedom. I agreed without hesitation. It just seemed to make sense.