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 Inevitability of Statism? 00:05:55 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Alien Invasion 00:09:28 The Chimera of “Limited Government” 00:14:04 Why is Defense Different Than Any Other Industry? 00:15:31 Did Nation-States Arise from Technological Realities? 00:17:07 A Thought Experiment on Statism: Individual Invincibility 00:22:15 Unassailable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant 00:26:00 The Zero-Sum Revenue Model of Statism 00:33:07 Bitcoin’s Price in Relation to The Demand for Security 00:34:38 Can Bitcoin Miners Operate At a Loss? 00:38:48 NYDIG 00:39:56 The Rise and Fall of States Across History 00:43:09 Inviolable Property Makes Statism Irrelevant? 00:47:19 Is Bitcoin a Regulator on The Growth of Statism? 00:50:45 The Ratio of Resistance to Statism