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 00:00:08 The Rights of Animals 00:05:01 Animals Exhibit Proto-Purposeful Action? 00:09:36 Self-Reflection as the Ultimate Evolutionary Advantage 00:12:37 Does “Might Make Right?” 00:18:54 Participation in the Division of Labor is the Line of Action 00:24:23 Rothbardian Libertarianism and Darwinism 00:29:05 NYDIG 00:30:13 Liberty: Ethics vs. Strategy 00:35:31 How Ethics Can Be Corrupted 00:41:17 Property Rights are a Universal Ethic 00:46:22 The Unreasonableness of Zero-Sum Games 00:47:47 Pooling Pressure and Institutional Collapse 00:49:11 Why Bitcoin is at The Pinnacle of Human Reason 00:53:42 Why Merchant Full Nodes Matter for Bitcoin 00:56:11 All Technologies are Backed by People 00:56:57 Bitcoin Assumes the Axis of Resistance