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>>Myself? I know I would rather live in pre-historic state, foraging with a bunch of my relatives and friends, instead of in the current day Philippines. Pre-h

>>Myself? I know I would rather live in pre-historic state, foraging with a bunch of my relatives and friends, instead of in the current day Philippines. Pre-historic life was brutal. Every one had ring worms. Every one had intestinal parasites. People were hungry almost all the time. A broken leg led to shock and death, and half of children died before the age of five. You need to study pre-history, or remote tribes that live in pre-historic modes of life. You're yet another person who underestimates the challenge of living, and takes for granted what modern civilization had to overcome. When you recklessly abolish the innovations, like private property rights, that led to industrial civilization, you create shortages, massive inflation, etc, and quickly see how fragile the economic system was.

FollowingTheDao 4y ago
If you’re not afraid to die, and to be uncomfortable, you’ll never be free. They’ll always be someone controlling you because of your fear. And right now you know who’s doing it? All these crypto people. They’re using the fear are you so eloquently detailed above to make you buy into a scam.
- CryptoPunk 4y ago
  I see disease, poverty and looming death as the opposite of freedom.
8note 4y ago
The same can be said for feudalism, yet powerful monarchs are largely gone. The innovations that help people live longer aren't private property, they're medical science and city planning. They don't depend on private property to continue existing
- therealdrag0 4y ago
  The argument is private property is a nearly necessary ingredient to innovation. It may not be exclusively true but boy it sure helps! Even things like city planning greatly benefits form the taxes siphoned off healthy private commercial activity.
- CryptoPunk 4y ago
  >>The innovations that help people live longer aren't private property, they're medical science and city planning. Private property is what generated the massive gains in productivity that allow society to allocate resources to employing specialists like doctors, researchers and water sanitation engineers. Even over the last 50 years, it's abundantly evident that private property rights facilitated the unprecedented gains in wages and quality of life seen globally; https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill... http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-global-war-on-poverty http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...

FollowingTheDao 4y ago

If you’re not afraid to die, and to be uncomfortable, you’ll never be free. They’ll always be someone controlling you because of your fear. And right now you know who’s doing it? All these crypto people. They’re using the fear are you so eloquently detailed above to make you buy into a scam.

CryptoPunk 4y ago
I see disease, poverty and looming death as the opposite of freedom.

8note 4y ago

The same can be said for feudalism, yet powerful monarchs are largely gone. The innovations that help people live longer aren't private property, they're medical science and city planning. They don't depend on private property to continue existing

therealdrag0 4y ago
The argument is private property is a nearly necessary ingredient to innovation. It may not be exclusively true but boy it sure helps! Even things like city planning greatly benefits form the taxes siphoned off healthy private commercial activity.
CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>The innovations that help people live longer aren't private property, they're medical science and city planning. Private property is what generated the massive gains in productivity that allow society to allocate resources to employing specialists like doctors, researchers and water sanitation engineers. Even over the last 50 years, it's abundantly evident that private property rights facilitated the unprecedented gains in wages and quality of life seen globally; https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill... http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-global-war-on-poverty http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...