Contracts Are So Much More Than Just Computer Colt

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Physical Property Rights in a Post-Bitcoin World
00:03:15 Taxation Bifurcates Society into Rulers and Ruled
00:06:53 All State Action is a Misallocation of Capital
00:09:53 To Truly Understand Statism is To Fix Statism
00:11:49 Individual Self-Ownership as Philosophical Steel
00:14:25 Statism is Self-Inflicted Suffering
00:16:27 Humans are Smart, Yet Self-Deceptive
00:18:39 The Invalidity of Constitutional Documents
00:21:23 The Praxeological Lens Purifies Perceptions
00:23:56 “If I Cannot Live in Heaven, then I Will Rule in Hell”
00:28:06 NYDIG
00:29:15 Incentives and The Propensity to Turn a Blind Eye
00:33:08 “Bitcoin Incentivizes Tremendous Character Change”
00:38:11 Property is the Proper Boundary for Actors
00:39:49 The Law Largely Emerged From Non-State Institutions
00:42:50 Distorting Discovery Processes Pathologizes
00:48:26 Dealing With Failure in a Libertarian World
00:51:40 The More Voluntarism You Put In, The More Wealth Comes Out

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