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Property taxes are a never-ending mortgage

April 5, 2019 April 5, 2019 / culture, economics, libertarianism, money, politics, popular culture / 2 Comments

Many people who buy a house with a mortgage consider themselves “homeowners”, but it’s not really true. You don’t own your house, the bank does. You’re just a custodian who takes care of the maintenance and pays rent to the bank. Miss a few payments and the bank will foreclose and come take your home away. I Read more [...]

America’s organ problem

April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019 / culture, libertarianism, money, news, politics / Leave a Comment

In the United States, selling your organs is illegal. As if the government didn’t already violate every right to your body imaginable by telling you what drugs you can and cannot use, what property you can and cannot own (in Vermont, a 16 round magazine just became illegal, but 15 is just fine). Where you can live Read more [...]

There’s something wrong about the Elon Musk narrative…

August 6, 2017 August 28, 2017 / economics, libertarianism, money, morality, parenting, philosophy, politics, popular culture, technology / 2 Comments

I've been a fan of Elon Musk for some time now. Why not, right? He builds spaceships and wants to colonize Mars, he builds electric cars that are green and great for the Earth, he wants to build a hyperloop, and so on.

If you go on YouTube and look at the comments on Elon Musk videos, or look at social media, or talk Read more [...]

Why aren’t more libertarians using Bitcoin?

February 4, 2013 April 13, 2013 / economics, libertarianism, money, politics / 1 Comment

Why the Austrian opposition to Bitcoin?
Value is subjective. The subjective theory of value is one of the basic discoveries of Austrian Economics. Every human being has their own value scale, and this enables voluntary, mutually consensual transactions to be win-win for every party involved. When two goods are voluntarily Read more [...]

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. by Frederic Bastiat

Favorite Quotes

July 10, 2012 March 2, 2023 / disaster preparedness, economics, libertarianism, money, morality, philosophy, politics, prepping, religion, self-improvement / 4 Comments

Here are my favorite quotes.

POEMS
"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of the thunder,
We danced among the lightning bolts,
and tore the world asunder."
WHAT IS LIBERTARIANISM?
"Libertarianism - The radical notion that other people are not your property."

"A libertarian is a person who believes Read more [...]

Rhode Island: “I knew someone that my parent knew that bragged that he killed in Vietnam. Come to find out he wasn't…” Mar 1, 18:23

Rhode Island: “The book is called the Big Question by Steven Landsburg.” Mar 1, 18:05

Libertarian Prepper: “Thanks! Yeah that's an interesting thought - that these people don't truly believe what they say because they're so hypocritical.…” Mar 1, 14:53

Rhode Island: “I read this book that talked about god. I do not believe in god and from what this book says…” Feb 9, 11:56

Libertarian Prepper: “I agree that people need to have self-control and be kind to each other. In real life, offline interactions, most…” Feb 8, 17:49