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Ep. 2351 Setting the Evil SOBs Straight on Energy, and More with Saifedean Ammous

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The Importance of Private Governance in Austria

Austrians think that libertarianism means, let's just keep asking everybody to be polite and nice and then we'll get to live in civilization. And for them this seems obviously ridiculous and, unworkable so the only alternative is that we need to have a violent monopoly on power that gets to kill and take the property of everybody. So if you're saying that we need an entity that can just violate property rights in order to maintain property rights, you clearly haven't thought this through which is what state is and ultimately is. I use Rothmauge's power and market, I use Hoppe's myth of national defense and democracy got that failed,. Edward Strignham's also his

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