February 2012
self-ownership asked: What a good man.
“To desire freedom is an instinct. To secure it requires intelligence. It must be...”
– EC Riegel, The New Approach to Freedom (New York, 1949)
EU Threatens Tiny Switzerland Over Low Taxes
In Switzerland, cantonal governments close to voters set their own tax policies. The resulting competition between the more than two dozen cantons fosters a business-friendly environment of low taxes, minimal government interference, and widespread prosperity. That is one important reason why international businesses flock to Switzerland in droves....
“The IRS, they’re like the Mafia: they can take anything they want.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
The Aftermath of MegaUpload takedown →
laliberty:
anarchyagogo:
MegaUpload - Closed.
FileServe - Closing, does not sell premium.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..
UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..
FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB - Closed! Will disappear soon.
Uploaded - Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Deleting all material...
“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger...”
– Benito Mussolini
“Naturalism and scientism cannot be supported scientifically. For example, we...”
– Bill Vallicella (via joshuadavidwatson)
Watchanarchyagogo:
2081: A 25-minute film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is “finally equal….” The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep...
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight...”
– Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Mobile Privatization
johnryanjournal:
“The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable. Nothing can be further from the spirit of the new technology than ‘a place for everything and everything in its place.’ You can’t go home again.”
— Marshal McLuhan
In 1974, Raymond Williams coined the term “mobile privatization” to describe the paradoxical trend he observed of an increasingly mobile...
“… take high abstracted man along;
and he seems a wonder, a grandeur and a woe....”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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“Decline of communism and reemergence of individual property in China. The Great...”
– Cowen and Tabarrok, Modern Principles: Macroeconomics (2nd edition, 2012)
Pictured above: Farmers from 18 households in Xiaogang signed a secret life-and-death agreement ending collective farming with their thumbprints. (From Cowen & Tabarrok 2012)
ABSTRACT: Revisiting the Tawantinsuyu: an economic...
thecurioustask:
Despite centuries of scholarly neglect, the past 50 years of anthropological research has unearthed a wealth of new information about the civilizations of pre-Columbian South America. These findings have dramatically shifted researchers’ perceptions of these diverse societies that built empires of great vastness and complexity. The Inca Empire, or “Tawantinsuyu,” was of...
“Once you think of the world as a lottery ticket, you have set yourself up to...”
– Peter Thiel, on the idea of “luck” in investment. (At the IOP Forum now!)
“We are the generation that continues to pay into Social Security with every...”
– AJ Dellinger, ‘The screwed generation: libertarian, not liberal’ Salon
There comes a point when people become too blinded...
coeus:
This applies to many anti-statists as well.
Yep, it applies to everyone because continuously and rationally reevaluating positions which disagree with your position is cognitive work that takes a lot of mental effort—with steeply diminishing marginal returns to that cognitive work in most circumstances. And that’s one of the reasons majority-rule elections don’t make...
Institutional Determinants of the Rule of Law →
datalorez:
This is an excellent essay by one of my favorite Tumblrers http://whakatikatika.tumblr.com/
He won a fat check and a trip to meet with the Hans-Adam II, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, who is ironically an anarchist at heart.
Read the essay. Follow the man.
Thankyou, sir.
'A Positive Account of Rights' by David Friedman →
horizontalismforyourmother:
whakatikatika:
horizontalismforyourmother:
I would also think that the claiming of property does not imply a right to property.
Um it doesn’t… and that is rather obviously irrelevant to the linked article from Friedman, which is about positive analysis of rights. As he explains in the 2nd paragraph:
If I have a normative right not to be killed, that means that...
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'A Positive Account of Rights' by David Friedman →
horizontalismforyourmother:
I would also think that the claiming of property does not imply a right to property.
Um it doesn’t… and that is rather obviously irrelevant to the linked article from Friedman, which is about positive analysis of rights. As he explains in the 2nd paragraph:
If I have a normative right not to be killed, that means that if you kill me you have acted...
