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[quote user="Southern"] I get the feel that these farmers that control us, would be revealed as those who own property. Be it land, capital, or equipment. I just get the feel that there is more to this article. And it is an introduction to some anti private property philosophy. But maybe I have read too much into it.[/quote] Actually, I don't
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Found this fantastic article that I thought needed to be shared to more corners of the Internet. It's originally at http://www.rense.com/general90/illus.htm Illusions Of Freedom By Jim Kirwan 3-8-10 "The Matrix is one of the greatest metaphors ever. 'Machines invented to make life easier end up enslaving humanity. This is the most dystopian
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[quote user="Daniel Muffinburg"]in Communism the people do[/quote] What does this mean?
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I'd love to see a game like this based on Austrian economics. You're still a king, and your victory conditions involve all sorts of ego-inflating things such as world domination or building a spaceship or other stuff you find in Civ. But the effects of any policies have a depressing effect on your economy, and if you try to micromanage buildings
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Conza: I think it's a reservation about where revolutions have historically ended up: abject tyranny. Granted, it's my personal belief that this must happen, and then the tyranny ultimately fail as they always do, before we will ever see anything resembling freedom again.
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Did anybody see Glenn Beck today? Beck was showering The Road to Serfdom with praise, and Tom Woods was on the show to provide some elaboration of its content. (No, I won't justify why I watch that show... I enjoy it, okay? :-p )
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Whether the action is conscious or unconscious doesn't matter because of how "action" and "value" are defined within the framework of AE. Regardless of the degree of deliberation prior to going out and getting ice cream, the very fact of doing so places it at #1 in your scale of values at that point in time, by definition. That
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[quote user="LeeO"] My family is already suffering from the last meltdown. What do I suggest my dad to do so we don't go bankrupt? Any good, basic, investment advice for surviving busts, here at Mises or any other website? [/quote] Um... prepare for events resembling the Biblical Tribulation? I'm of the camp that says almost everybody
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What's scary is that sounds entirely plausible.
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I don't understand why anyone expects or assumes any human being to be a saint.