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by afsina 9y ago
On Standard Oil: https://mises.org/library/100-years-myths-about-standard-oil
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by afsina 9y ago
It already happens. That someone is called "State". History shows that without state support even big oligopolies crumbles sooner or later.
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by afsina 9y ago
State creates monopolies by stopping free actors to enter the market by: - IP rights - Protectionism, tariffs, Quotas etc. - Exclusive rights and laws generated by Lobbying - Unnecessary Licenses and regulations (often with public health e
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by afsina 9y ago
https://flutter.io/faq/#can-i-interop-with-my-mobile-platfor...
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by afsina 9y ago
Not really related with the article but curiously I have yet to see anybody calls himself a "neoliberal".
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by afsina 9y ago
They should loose and government should not help. So that this culture of recklessness die. No "too big to fail" BS
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by afsina 9y ago
Government grabs money by force. That is the difference I guess.
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by afsina 9y ago
Actually academia is not necessary dependent on Government. Universities can be private or privately funded and still do basic scientific research. You can read an old piece on the issue from Murray Rothbard: https://mises.org&#x
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by afsina 9y ago
Chinese yes, China? Seems not even close from the first link you posted.
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by afsina 9y ago
There are anti-theses for the issue. Two criticizing the book mentioned: https://mises.org/library/government-spending-innovation-tru... and http://pricesandmarkets.org/volume-3-issue-3-winter-2015&#x
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by afsina 9y ago
Below portrays a different picture to me: https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institutio... Granted, many of those researcher may be Chinese but that is not the point.
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by afsina 9y ago
Perhaps. However, it is also likely that technological advances will make the level of quality of life quite close whether you are wealthy or not.
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by afsina 9y ago
He (and Fresco) is of course talking hypothetically but as he continues: "If such a world really is technologically possible, we should cut the socialist dreamers some slack. Their fault lies not with their vision, but with their plans
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by afsina 9y ago
I think this is the relevant piece: https://mises.org/library/venus-needs-some-austrians I think Murphy is quite right.
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by afsina 9y ago
Yes, that is why I used the word "want" not "do".
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by afsina 9y ago
To me this is like telling "Government will be right for everyone this time, if we tweak the parameters right". Applying rules of Empiricism to large scale governing will just make things worse as long as people have very differen
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by afsina 9y ago
If it comes to that, having a local warlord over a large state warlord is the better option.
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by afsina 9y ago
If you ask me, situation with norther Ireland is not really solved. Same for Quebec or heck Belgium or Italy. If one group have ethnic cleansing ambitions they will do it anyway. This whole "equal protection and human rights" rhet
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by afsina 9y ago
No, what they say is, failures will occur but markets can heal themselves better than government intervention.
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by afsina 9y ago
Perhaps it is better to read some introductory literature on this. Rothbard - Hoppe, Rand or Nozick (All are different schools in libertarian thought AFAIK)
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by afsina 9y ago
Are implying that, for example, if Catalonia, Bask or Scotland become a country situation will be ripe for killing Spanish or English man living there?
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by afsina 9y ago
AFAIK, Libertarians are not Utopians. If there is a choice, they prefer decentralization and secession. Underlying reason is not important (Ethnic and religious, or ideological). Besides, from what I know, in large sovereign states and lar
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by afsina 9y ago
Oh that is such a stretch. Ethnic cleansing occurred in large, well established states already. "as small as possible" can go much smaller than what you have in mind.
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by afsina 9y ago
What libertarians would probably want first in Iraq is to let ethnic and religious groups to have the control of their own territory and abolish or weaken the central government as much as possible. Honestly this approach would at least all
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by afsina 9y ago
What many libertarians want is decentralization. As much as possible. They probably want to get rid of all powerful Federal Government but local governments (as small as possible) and confederations are usually fine.
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by afsina 9y ago
There are a lot of literature about this. But to answer to your question, whole concept of "Market failure" is considered a myth. Just two articles among many: https://mises.org/library/market-failure-myth h
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by afsina 10y ago
I don't see people flocking even after Trump won.
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by afsina 10y ago
Yes it is. But they will tell you that you signed the social contract with your birth blood and need to pay up or go to jail if not. Harsh but that is the truth.
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by afsina 10y ago
Sadly, many people who make those blanket statements (such as myself) also believe governments, especially big-centralized ones cannot be fixed. These kind of data is good, it may be an eye opener for some. But governments will find loop ho
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by afsina 10y ago
I strongly disagree with the author here: "Suddenly, he explained, the faceless bureaucrats who are often pilloried as symbols of government waste suddenly start to look like the people in our neighborhood whom we’re very glad to have.

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