Leviathan: Chris:I always get a kick I can tell. They're doing wondrous things in rehab programs these days.
Chris:I always get a kick
Perhaps you can go violently threaten a rehab center to admit me because I think I have a right to their services. Just tell them it's for the greater good and to be happy that they live in a "libertarian" society.
Everyone, keep it clean.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Chris:Perhaps you can go violently threaten a rehab center to admit me because I think I have a right to their services. Just tell them it's for the greater good and to be happy that they live in a "libertarian" society.
The workmen desire to get as much, the master to give as little as possible...It is not difficult to foresee which of the two parties must force the other into a compliance with their terms. -Adam Smith
Leviathan:The workmen desire to get as much, the master to give as little as possible...It is not difficult to foresee which of the two parties must force the other into a compliance with their terms. -Adam Smith
Fascinating discussion... just wanted to make a comment about this Adam Smith quote. Namely that it's incorrect (assuming Smith means that the master will force the worker to his terms). I've never let a "master" dictate compliance to me. In the last 20 years I've been a worker, and I've quit quite a few jobs when it became apparent that my employer thought himself my "master". I know what I'm worth and have never hesitated to tell a "master" to shove it. I've always gotten another (often better) job a few days later.
Now, I'm an entrepreneur, being tired of having idiots tell me what to do. In retrospect, I find it interesting how so many Austrians (myself included) venerate entrepreneurs but don't consider becoming one. When I was at Mises U. 2005 I was struck by the fact that just about everyone I talked to wanted to be a professor. No one wanted to become a politician or an entrepreneur. Funny, because as much as we say that ideas change the world, it's actually action taken on ideas that do so, and for us Austrians that would require at least some of us to enter politics and/or business.
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Edmund Burke