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[quote user="SkepticalMetal"] Also, this will derail the thread, but why is it that so many libertarians like the movie "Fight Club?" After I saw it, my conclusion that it was anti-capitalist even by our definition of it. [/quote] I myself like it because it’s a damn good movie, even if anarcho-primitivist. I have reason to
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I am willing to bet money that Italy would find a pretext to station some ‘anti-money laundering task force” of Carabinieri even if San Marino lowered its VAT tax rate below that of Italy (attracting many Italian businesses), let alone if it provided a fully free society with decent money. Monaco is in the same situation vis-à-vis
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I would gladly hit someone for being sufficiently (but only verbally) offensive, a clear breach of the NAP.
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Aside from the implicit threat of violence from Italy under which defenseless San Marino always lives under, I am afraid that getting people who are very content with their society and government to radically change it would be very, very difficult. Indeed impossible for an outsider.
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The concepts discussed in the OP show how humans will instinctively tend toward a tribalist order: communism within the smallish clan, war with everyone outside it, a drive to expand one’s clan territory, etc. Basically National Socialism writ large. If you take a look at all past or present human societies organized in an autarchic fashion (with
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If Duncan Smith he meant to attack those “parts of the benefits system [that] promote 'destructive' behavior”, I say he got it spot on. I’ve thought about private charity, and specially rich-dudes philanthropy, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to help booth those in need and manage to improve the general
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I managed to read it halfway through. Not the most enjoyable book ever, I must say, and few (if any) original insights, up to that point anyway.
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[quote user="Bogart"] 1. Not necessarily. Most Austrians would like to see a free market in money production, that is anyone can create their own currency and then the marketplace for currencies would determine the most preferred versions. And this could easily change over time. 2. Gold has several properties that make it ideal for use as
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Leaving aside the obvious difference between printing someone else’s money (which is pure fraud) and gold mining, I’ll discuss only printing by the actual owner of the fiat currency vs. gold mining. 1) My impression is that most Austrian economists would see a strictly unchangeable money supply as their ideal, and in this sense gold mining
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[quote user="Al_Gore the Idiot"] I would never have guessed that anybody here was from Albania. I think it would be an interesting place to visit. Heard good things about it from other backpackers I've met in Europe. [/quote] Hear, hear. Thus begins the Revolution! If you do come over, let me know so you can get a beer from the Mises Albania&Kosovo