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#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Fundamental Property of the State

The state does not have access to data the way that firms do. If prices are set by the government, which the government is a monopoly, I have no way of picking those winners or losers. So the price is a really strong signal that allows you to operate a voluntary collective where people get what they want and don't get what they don't want. And it tells me what to produce, what not to produce.

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