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His linkedin page is pretty transparent if you know anything about him "Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use
by llamataboot 13y ago
His linkedin page is pretty transparent if you know anything about him
"Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and agression amongst mankind. Just as slavery has been abolished most everywhere, I believe violence, coercion and all forms of force by one person over another can come to an end. The most widespread and systemic use of force is amongst institutions and governments, so this is my current point of effort. The best way to change a government is to change the minds of the governed, however. To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force."
- defen 13y agoAnd yet, he appears to have paid to put a hit out on somebody...
- llamataboot 13y agoSo he's a hypocrite and/or got corrupted by money and fear...not saying he is a good person, just that in retrospect his linkedin page is pretty transparent to confirm who he is and what he's doing based on his market anarchist writings posted under the DPR name, etc
- aw3c2 13y agoYou can write anything online and you can read many things into things people write. You can easily create personas only and lie and invent people.
- njharman 13y agoSystematic force means laws, government, and the like. Hiring hitman is the libertarian free market at its best.
- Jtsummers 13y agoSystemic (not systematic) means "of or related to a system". This is not, strictly, governments. It can be any system from the ad hoc (Occupy movement) to the deliberately constructed (governments, corporations). It can be social systems, economic systems, anything. Systemic use of force, then, is a situation where the use of force against some parties is inherently part of the system. Whether it be physical, legal with threat of physical, emotional force or violence. If the particular economic sphere he's running in relies on violence (based on my experience in Las Vegas in the 90s, I'd say the drug world is one such system), then this isn't libertarian free market at its best, it's just the systemic use of force typical of the illicit drug industry.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 13y agoBut he mentions "institutions" specifically in his diatribe, alongside governments. Surely he believes that a corporation or organization can be just as evil and dangerous as a government actor? It sounds like he corrupted himself through his own institution, if the allegations are true.
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- sausman 13y agoSounds like someone needs to create a straw man to justify their own views...
- jerf 13y agoNo, that would be anarchism. Part of what distinguishes libertarianism from anarchism is that it does acknowledge the utility of a government, and very few libertarians would deny one of its primary, legitimate duties is public safety. Do not mistake believing that our current government (which is, might I add, the single largest entity in the history of man; sorry, it isn't that bizarre to think that it might just be a teensy bit too large, despite people's best efforts to somehow cast this as a crazy idea) is too large with thinking that the correct amount of government is zero.
- smokeyj 13y agoIf thousands of people were threatened to be violently seized from their homes to be locked up in cages, do they not have a right to self-defense?
- Jtsummers 13y agoWho are these thousands of people the US gov't is about to seize and lockup?
- betterunix 13y agoMaybe the victims of the tens of thousands of paramilitary police assaults that occur each year in this country? Do you think that those soldiers are just going to let their targets walk free? We have the world's largest prison population for a reason: we imprison large numbers of people each year.
- Jtsummers 13y agoI agree that that's a problem, one that I want to see get more play in the popular press so people will stop ignoring it. And I do, primarily via voting for candidates that never seem to win (I have few options in this region), try to do something regarding the prison system and would like to see many activities decriminalized. smokeyj's post, however, is somewhat hyperbolic in its tone and I wondered if they had anything else in mind. Reminds me too much of my "The South will rise again!" coworkers.
- 7952 13y agoNot if its illegal.
- bcoates 13y agoI'm sure if you extorted a multi-millionaire Republican or Democrat or whatever with something they couldn't go to the police for, nothing at all bad would happen to you.
- frozenport 13y agoReminds of how criminals wear religious symbols like golden crosses. I think the biggest and perhaps only believer in his anarchost theories was himself.
- ameoba 13y agoIf you're running a private criminal enterprise bringing in millions of dollars, why would you risk drawing attention to yourself by putting you manifesto on LinkedIn allowing them to xref your crazy with your lack of unemployment?
- omni_ 13y agoEgo, perhaps.
- emiliobumachar 13y agoIdealism, maybe. His discourse is pretty self-consistent, he may actually believe it.
- gwern 13y agoWell, once you know, then it's 'obvious', just like a good murder mystery is obvious in retrospect. But that's hindsight bias talking. If you don't know that he's DPR, he just comes off as another libertard, of which there must be hundreds of thousands online.