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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OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:05 NYDIG 00:01:23 Introduction to Max and “The Ethics of Liberty” 00:05:36 Defining Praxeology 00:13:01 Human Action, Observation, and Value 00:16:25 Preferences and Want-Satisfaction 00:17:33 Apriori vs. Empirical Knowledge 00:21:19 Defining Property 00:29:45 Property Rights and Alienability 00:32:13 Property’s Dependence on Defensibility 00:36:47 Non-Aggression (Yin) and Self-Defense (Yang) 00:39:40 The Universal Ethic: “Do Not Steal” 00:44:02 The Enforceability of Property 00:49:45 Castles and Preemptive Protection 00:54:12 The Architectural Defenses of Bitcoin 00:57:22 “Bitcoin Dies if No One Cares About Freedom” 00:58:58 Bitcoin and the Scale, Duration, and Frequency of Violence