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 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