Michael Matulef

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Know Thyself | Everything Voluntary✌️ | Follow the Tao

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2024-11-17 01:17:37

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2024-11-17 01:15:51

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
- Thomas Sowell

2024-11-14 14:30:51

THE CONSENSUS CONUNDRUM
Bitcoin faces a one-of-a-kind leadership problem
By @nprofile…2sqj
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A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it's scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable. I won’t rehash them here, you’re probably already familiar. Some have been actively developed for years.
The past two such changes that have been made to bitcoin successfully, Segwit and Taproot, were massive engine-lift-style deployments fraught with drama. There have been smaller changes in bitcoin’s past, like the introduction of locktimes, but for some reason the last two have been kitchen sink affairs.
The reality not often talked about by many bitcoin engineers is that up until Taproot, bitcoin’s consensus development was more or less operating under a benevolent dictatorship model. Project leadership went from Satoshi to Gavin to… well, I’ll stop naming names.
Core developers will likely quibble with this characterization, but we all know deep down that to a first order approximation that it’s basically true. The “final say” and big ideas were implicitly signed off on by one guy, or maybe a small oligarchy of wizened autists.
In many ways there’s really nothing wrong with this - most (all?) major opensource projects operate similarly with pretty clear leadership structures. Oftentimes they have benevolent dictators who just “make the call” in times of high-dimensional ambiguity. Everyone knows Guido and Linus and the based Christian sqlite guy.
Bitcoin is aesthetically loathe to this but the reality, whether we like it or not, is that this is how it worked up until about 2021.
Given that, there are three factors that create the CONSENSUS CONUNDRUM facing bitcoin right now:
(1) The old benevolent dictators (or high-caste oligarchy) have abdicated their power, leaving a vacuum that shifts the project from “conventional mode of operation” to “novel, never-before-tried” mode: an attempt at some kind of supposedly meritocratic leaderlessness.
This change is coupled with the fact that
(2) the possible design space for improvements and things to care about in bitcoin is wide open at this point. Do you want vaults? Or more L2s? What about rollups? Or how about a generic computational tool like CAT? Or should we bundle the generic things with applications (CTV + VAULT) to make sure they really work?
The problem is that all of these are valid opinions. They all have merit, both in terms of what to focus on and how to get to the end goal. There really isn’t a clear “correct” design pattern.
(3) A final factor that makes this situation poisonous is that faithfully pursuing, fleshing out, building, “doing the work” of presenting a proposal IS REALLY REALLY TIME CONSUMPTIVE AND MIND MELTING.
Getting the demos, specs, implementation, and "marketing" material together is a long grind that takes years of experience with Core to even approach.
I was well paid to do this fulltime for years, and the process left me with disgusted with the dysfunction and having very little desire to continue contribution. I think this is a common feeling.
A related myth is that businesses will do something analogous to aid the process. The idea that businesses will build on prospective forks is pretty laughable. Most bitcoin companies have a ton on their backlog, are fighting for survival, and have basically no one dedicated to R&D. The have a hard enough time integrating features that actually make it in.
Many of the ones who do have the budget for R&D are shitcoin factories that don’t care about bitcoin-specific upgrades.
I’ve worked for some of the rare companies that care about bitcoin and do have the money for this kind of R&D, and even then the resources are not sufficient to build a serious product demo on top of 1 of N speculative softforks that may never happen.
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This kind of situation is why human systems evolve leadership hierarchies. In general, to progress in a situation like this someone needs to be in a position to say “alright, after due consideration we’re doing X.”
Of course what makes this seem intractable is that the Bitcoin mythology dictates (rightly) that clear leadership hierarchies are how you wind up, in the limit, with the Fed.
Sure, bitcoin can just never change again in any meaningful way ("ossify"). But at this point that almost certainly resigns it to yet another financial product that can only be accessed with the benefit of a large institution.
If you grant that bitcoin should probably keep tightening its rules for more and better functionality, but that we should go "slow and steady," I think there are issues with that too.
Because another factor that isn’t talked about is that as bitcoin rises in price, and as nation-states start buying in size, the rules will be harder to change. So inaction — not deciding — is actually a very consequential decision.
I do not know how this resolves.
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There’s another uncomfortable subject I want to touch on: where the power actually lies.
The current mechanism for changing bitcoin hinges on what Core developers will merge. This of course isn’t official policy, but it’s the unintended reality.
Other less technically savvy actors (like miners and exchanges) have to pick some indicator to pay attention to that tells them what changes are safe and when they are coming. They have little ability or interest to size these things up for themselves, or do the development necessary to figure them out.
My Core colleagues will bristle at this characterization. They’ll say “we’re just janitors! we just merge what has consensus!” And they’re not being disingenuous in saying that. But they’re also not acknowledging that historically, that is how consensus changes have operated.
This is something that everyone knows semi-consciously but doesn’t really want to own.
Core devs saying “yes” and clicking merge has been a necessary precursor every time. And right now none of the Core devs are paying attention to the soft fork conversations - sort of understandable, there’s a bunch to do in bitcoin.
But let’s be honest here, a lot of the work happening in Core has been sort of secondary to bitcoin’s realization.
Mempool work is interesting, but the whole model is more or less upside down anyway because it’s based on altruism. For-profit darkpools and accelerators seem inevitable to me, although that could be argued. Much of the mempool work is rooted in support for Lightning, which is pretty obviously not going to solve the scaling problem.
Sure, encrypted P2P connections are great, but what’s even the point if we can’t get on-chain ownership to a level beyond essentially requiring the use of an exchange, ecash mint, sidechain, or some other trusted third party?
My main complaint is that Core has developed an ivory tower mindset that more or less sneers at people piatching long-run consensus stuff instead of trying to actually engage with the hard problems.
And that could have bitcoin fall short of its potential.
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I don’t know what the solution to any of this is. I do know that self-custody is totally nervewracking and basically out of the question for casual users, and I do know that bitcoin in its current form will not scale to twice-monthly volume for even 10% of the US, let alone most of the world.
The people who don’t acknowledge this, and who want to spend critical time and energy wallowing in the mire of proposing the perfect remix of CTV, are making a fateful choice.
Most of the longstanding, fully specified fork proposals active today are totally fine, and conceptually they’d be great additions to bitcoin.
Hell, probably a higher block size is safe given features like compactblocks and assumeutxo and eventually utreexo. But that’s another post for another day.
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I've gone back and forth about writing a post like this, because I don't have any concrete prescriptions or recommendations. I guess I can only hope that bringing up these uncomfortable observations is some distant precursor to making progress on scaling self-custody.
All of these opinions have probably been expressed by @JeremyRubin years ago in his blog. I’m just tired of biting my tongue.
Thanks to @nprofile…x2lg and @nprofile…5hjp for feedback on drafts of this.
https://x.com/jamesob/status/1857049961235403101

2024-11-11 19:01:26

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It's Rothbard's magnum opus.
https://mises.org/library/book/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market

2024-11-08 10:27:03

GM ☕
Remember to count your blessings each day.

2024-10-30 16:49:14

A judicial monopoly will inevitably lead to a steady deterioration in the quality of justice and protection. If no one can appeal to justice except to government, justice will be perverted in favor of the government, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding. Constitutions and supreme courts are state constitutions and agencies, and all limitations to state action they might contain or find are invariably decided by agents of the very institution under consideration. Predictably, the definition of property and protection will continually be altered and the range of jurisdiction expanded to the government's advantage until, ultimately, the notion of universal and immutable human rights and in particular property rights-will disappear and be replaced by that of law as government-made legislation and rights as government-given grants.
- Hans Herman Hoppe

2024-10-29 16:09:26

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law. Are they not the supreme legislator?...It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power. An economist can never be a favorite of autocrats and demagogues. With them he is always the mischief-maker, and the more they are inwardly convinced that his objections are well founded, the more they hate him.
- Mises

2024-10-29 00:27:13

No words can capture the joy you feel when your newborn laughs for the first time.

2024-10-24 09:36:15

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Thanks 🙏

2024-10-18 19:20:50

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2024-10-14 02:08:42

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Everything Voluntary ✌️

2024-10-11 15:25:55

Taxation is not just a punishment of consumption without any effect on productive efforts; it is also an assault on production as the only means of providing for and possibly increasing future income and consumption expenditure. By lowering the present value associated with future-directed, value-productive efforts, taxation raises the effective rate of time preference, i.e., the rate of originary interest and, accordingly, leads to a shortening of the period of production and provision and so exerts an inexorable influence of pushing mankind into the direction of an existence of living from hand to mouth. Just increase taxation enough, and you will have mankind reduced to the level of barbaric animal beasts.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

2024-10-10 21:02:48

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2024-10-08 18:45:50

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Statism:
Ideas sood good they ought to be mandatory.

2024-10-07 13:45:44

The ongoing WOW is happening right NOW
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2024-09-30 13:19:17

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2024-09-28 00:14:24

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2024-09-27 18:17:48

This is the Way
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2024-09-26 12:10:49

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2024-09-25 20:15:04

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2024-09-25 19:38:57

The Three Doors: Which One Will Bitcoin Step Through?
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-three-doors-which-one-will-bitcoin-step-through

2024-09-25 15:57:49

"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating
information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement,
bitcoin is an expressive association."
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2024-09-24 22:03:35

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2024-09-24 10:30:33

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☕

2024-09-24 01:20:35

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2024-09-23 22:23:09

IRL Audionauts badge bitches 😂
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2024-09-21 03:04:41

The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.
- Friedrich Hayek

2024-09-20 10:03:34

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2024-09-19 23:13:27

"The word (capitalism) is tainted. And when people in the streets of countries throughout the developing world chant out their opposition to “capitalism”—meaning, in reality, not genuine freedom but rather unjust dominance by Western powers and their privileged corporate cronies—I think it’s vital for advocates of liberty to be able to make clear that the system of statist oppression the protestors are naming isn’t the system we favor."
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2024-09-19 23:11:08

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In practice, I agree it comes with a lot of baggage, which is why I usually use 'voluntaryism' when talking to most people.
That said, I share the view from the Mises article that, economically speaking, it’s still the correct term.
Maybe it’s time we reclaim it? 🤷

2024-09-19 21:51:16

Capitalist-entrepreneurs drive the economy forward in their desire to satisfy the demands of consumers. Capital goods themselves are the causes of economic growth and progress. Everything we see around us is the fruit of capital accumulation and saving by capitalists.
Rather than decry the term “capitalism,” we should be more willing to use the term than ever. Capitalists and capital are the cause of growth and progress. The whole of the market system relies upon them. Capitalism should be readily embraced by all defenders of free markets as a descriptive term. Capital is a central part of society. The term that Marx gave as a mark of derision is, in fact, a perfect descriptor of the benefits of the market system—one that advocates of free markets should make a term of pride.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-we-should-defend-term-capitalism

2024-09-19 19:09:26

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Having kids magnifies this. Stay mindful of the moment and routinely count your blessings.

2024-09-19 13:29:02

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Bob to analyze Kamala Harris's proposals against price gouging, and how some mainstream economists defend Government price controls. They also address misconceptions about price gouging and the evolving mainstream narrative on inflation.
https://fountain.fm/episode/bI1NB218wIGXu7jcHpKP

2024-09-18 16:08:43

The Classical Economists' Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think
Bob quotes from David Ricardo to show that the classical economists understood that utility was essential to explaining market value, but then he also explains why the Marginalist Revolution was a scientific advancement.
https://fountain.fm/episode/zDV748rbTHpW20gigJrV

2024-09-17 16:59:46

@nprofile…8cm0 on Popular Bitcoin Myths
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https://fountain.fm/episode/FxItzUdZLz48Q6qETuQ1

2024-09-17 10:03:55

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🙏

2024-09-16 19:37:04

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2024-09-16 16:08:57

Bitcoin Audible Read_838 - Crypto Rebels
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2024-08-14 19:13:36

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It’s not about being "most correct" but understanding that economic phenomena arise from complex, subjective interactions, making precise predictions impossible. The Austrian method emphasizes the limits of economic knowledge, rejecting the idea of economics as a purely objective science, and instead view it as a process of discovering and interpreting human action.

2024-08-01 21:02:44

❤️❤️❤️ 854992 ❤️❤️❤️

2024-07-31 11:56:52

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
- Friedrich Hayek

2024-07-29 10:19:15

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
- Thomas Sowell

2024-07-27 15:00:08

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2024-07-26 18:15:10

Kamala's Palace Coup | Radio Rothbard
https://fountain.fm/episode/F8r3mtP8ypK12Z99JWSr

2024-07-24 21:59:50

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

2024-07-20 13:50:57

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation.
- Ludwig von Mises

2024-07-19 10:56:10

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2024-07-15 10:24:57

GM ☕
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2024-07-14 11:46:20

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2024-07-12 23:16:53

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2024-07-05 12:19:55

Bitcoin Audible Read_831 - Lightning Alliance to Accelerate Adoption
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2024-07-05 10:00:52

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2024-07-04 10:39:46

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
- Murray Rothbard

2024-07-04 03:02:20

Secession is a peaceful means of minimizing political violence and allowing different groups of people to live under different political systems.

2024-07-03 10:08:10

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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a self-appointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon “experts” and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny is at stake.
Very few are capable of contributing any consequential idea to the body of economic thought. But all reasonable men are called upon to familiarize themselves with the teachings of economics. This is, in our age, the primary civic duty.
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.
- Mises
https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-schools-deductive-approach-beacon-economic-understanding

2024-07-02 12:10:30

Love peace more than you love force, conflict, compulsion, and intolerance. Work toward a society in which individuals choose to do right because they want to, not because they’re forced to.
— Lawrence W. Reed

2024-06-29 18:48:55

Debate Recap: The Funeral of Joe Biden
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2024-06-29 12:19:35

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The inflation was so intense that people began to celebrate the soaring stock market, seeing it as a sign of prosperity rather than a symptom of economic collapse.

2024-06-29 12:08:04

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2024-06-27 17:30:44

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.
- Hölderlin

2024-06-26 10:31:08

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
— Thomas Pynchon

2024-06-25 01:34:42

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
- Julian Assange

2024-06-22 12:08:53

“You’re not getting an education, you’re getting an indoctrination”
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2024-06-19 15:48:08

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2024-06-16 00:14:52

A member of the human race who is completely incapable of understanding the higher productivity of labor performed under a division of labor based on private property is not properly speaking a person… but falls instead into the same moral category as an animal — of either the harmless sort (to be domesticated and employed as a producer or consumer good, or to be enjoyed as a “free good”) or the wild and dangerous one (to be fought as a pest).
- Hans Herman Hoppe

2024-06-16 00:14:30

Now the man who seizes another’s property is living in basic contradiction to his own nature as a man. For we have seen that man can only live and prosper by his own production and exchange of products. The aggressor, on the other hand, is not a producer at all but a predator; he lives parasitically off the labor and product of others. Hence, instead of living in accordance with the nature of man, the aggressor is a parasite who feeds unilaterally by exploiting the labor and energy of other men.
- Murray Rothbard

2024-06-14 19:05:50

Bitcoin Audible Read_828 - Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working
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2024-06-14 17:47:19

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"Mises made a distinction between credit that is backed by savings, and credit that does not have any backing. The first type of credit he labeled commodity credit. The second he labeled circulation credit. It is circulation credit that plays the key role in setting the boom-bust cycle process.
When credit is fully backed by savings — that is, it’s commodity credit — it permits the expansion of tools and machinery. With better infrastructure, it is now possible to produce not only more goods but goods of a better quality. The expansion of real wealth is now possible.
In an unhampered market economy, borrowers are users of savings who make sure that savings are employed in the most efficient way — generating profits. This means that real savings are employed in accordance with consumers’ most important priorities. We can thus see here that as long as banks facilitate commodity credit, they should be regarded as the agents of wealth generation.
In contrast, whenever banks embark on the lending of circulation credit, they in fact become the agents of real wealth destruction.
As opposed to commodity credit, circulation credit is not supported by any real saving. This type of credit is just an empty claim created by banks. In the case of commodity credit, the borrower secures goods that were produced and saved for him."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-explains-difference-between-circulation-credit-and-commodity-credit

2024-06-11 18:27:55

Bitcoin Audible Read_826 The Supreme Court Ruling and Implications for Operation Choke Point
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https://fountain.fm/episode/hhXoxAgKnnaTMZnFcHoi

2024-06-10 14:28:41

Bitcoin Audible Read_825 - Decentralization and Localized Manufacturing, Bitcoin, Ai, and 3D Printing
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https://fountain.fm/episode/4QEi6EIpEvSOJXg6EtOw

2024-06-08 12:59:15

Know Thyself
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2024-06-07 15:16:40

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2024-06-06 00:31:48

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2024-05-31 01:57:29

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2024-05-30 15:04:27

The fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart human cooperation. Experience teaches that cooperative action is more efficient and productive than isolated action of self-sufficient individuals. Man has a better chance to survive and to improve his condition when he acts in concert with his fellows. But the fundamental prerequisite of any cooperation is trust

2024-05-26 13:18:27

If and as far as labor under the division of labor is more productive than isolated labor, and if and as far as man is able to realize this fact, human action itself tends toward cooperation and association; man becomes a social being not in sacrificing his own concerns for the sake of a mythical Moloch, society, but in aiming at an improvement in his own welfare. Experience teaches that this condition — higher productivity achieved under division of labor — is present because its cause — the inborn inequality of men and the inequality in the geographical distribution of the natural factors of production — is real. Thus we are in a position to comprehend the course of social evolution.
- Mises

2024-05-26 13:17:22

Welfare must be recognized as a matter exclusively of families and voluntary charity and state welfare as nothing but the subsidization of irresponsibility
- Hans Herman Hoppe

2024-05-22 16:19:34

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2024-05-22 01:30:09

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2024-05-22 00:08:48

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🎯

2024-05-19 15:41:34

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2024-05-18 00:02:39

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2024-05-17 23:26:03

Human action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli and to the conditions of its environment, is a person's conscious adjustment to the state of the universe that determines his life.

2024-05-17 17:56:51

As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government! The only sure way to prevent the rich from buying unfair government influence is to stop allowing government to use physical force against peaceful people. Whenever government is allowed to favor one group over another, the rich will always win, since they can "buy" more favors, overtly or covertly, than the poor.
- Mary J. Ruwart

2024-05-17 15:53:55

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2024-05-16 12:54:42

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2024-05-14 19:03:27

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2024-05-14 13:46:09

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2024-05-14 12:18:57

The Power of Bitcoin with Gloria Zhao
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2024-05-08 09:30:58

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2024-05-07 14:57:34

Listen to @npub1ug8…d9ry and reject ossification
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2024-05-05 17:37:43

Just as everyone in a tribe praying to a volcano god would reinforce the idea that there is a volcano god, so begging politicians for favors reinforces the idea that there is a rightful ruling class, that their commands are "law," and that obedience to such "laws" is a moral imperative.
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2024-05-01 17:07:31

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Nah
Not enough pain

2024-04-28 04:40:27

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2024-04-26 18:54:27

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KYC

2024-04-26 18:35:21

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2024-04-26 18:30:04

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2024-04-25 15:56:16

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~ Ayn Rand