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 Humans Mediate Between Heaven and Earth 00:05:25 Ethical Strategies Outcompete Unethical Strategies 00:06:50 Reason Tells Us to Protect Ourselves From Others’ Unreasonableness 00:09:44 The Cypherpunk Ethos 00:14:19 Strategy for Overcoming Central Banking 00:16:30 Statism: An Ideology of Violating Private Property Rights 00:22:05 Statism is All About Controlling Resources 00:24:14 Liberty: A Stateless State 00:26:24 The State and Psychotechnological Bootstrapping? 00:30:36 NYDIG 00:31:45 Is Statism Transitory? 00:34:23 Human Action Aimed at “Something For Nothing” 00:38:25 Bitcoin and the Realignment of Truth and Power 00:40:49 “The Further a Society Drifts From the Truth…” 00:43:52 Bitcoin Combines “Carrots and Sticks” 00:46:29 Bitcoin as a Forcing Function for Fixing The World 00:50:20 Bitcoin: Rothbardian Ethics in a Strategic Implementation 00:52:45 “Read Rothbard and Use Bitcoin”