For me it was finally realizing that markets are not a form of democracy and democracy is not a gimp form of a market. Voting is the conscious act of attempting to compel others to do something against their will. It grants legitimacy to an immoral system.
What about you? Whats the most important thing you've learned?
Statism is a religion.
There was a thread about this quite awhile ago. I could never find it again.
Anyone?
That mankind no longer needs the state and that the Invisible Hand Theory can be trusted.
filc:What about you? Whats the most important thing you've learned?
Revisionism.
'It is difficult to imagine any normal person wishing to meet Marx for a third time.' - Alexander Gray, The Socialist Tradition
TelfordUS: That mankind no longer needs the state and that the Invisible Hand Theory can be trusted.
+1
At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.
Subjective Theory of Value
"...The post-totalitarian system contrives to force life into its most probable states...This system serves people only to the extent necessary to ensure that people will serve it
Vaclav Havel
Laughing Man: filc:What about you? Whats the most important thing you've learned? Revisionism.
Revisionism of history. Thanks DiLorenzo!
My favorite online shop: www.cafepress.com/libertyphile
That regardless of the unknowns, and perhaps in spite of them, there is never a justification for aggression.
I'd say the most influential posters for me have been Stranger, Jon Irenicus, NitroAdict and Jon Bostwick.
If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North
liberty student: That regardless of the unknowns, and perhaps in spite of them, there is never a justification for aggression. I'd say the most influential posters for me have been Stranger, Jon Irenicus, NitroAdict and Jon Bostwick.
You're one of the few that actually challenge me. I still think your ethical subjectivism is loopy so don't get too cuddly with my comment.
I learnt that the market-price system is a voting machine.
maybe filc and Prashanth have something to discuss...
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
Liberty does not exist by virtue of degree of government decree.
It is either complete or it is an illusion.
"Oh, I wish I could pray the way this dog looks at the meat" - Martin Luther
The action Axiom and the connection between Austrian economics and rationalist philosophy, Kant etc...
It made both the pursuit of economics and the writings of Immanuel Kant make much more sense to me than they did before I discovered the Austrian school.
Learning how to read.
Oh, you mean from Austrian economics...
The URL of this site. Everything else fell into place after that.
nirgrahamUK:maybe filc and Prashanth have something to discuss...
I think so.
The capitalist system and the free market are the best providers for the needs and wants of society. Aggression is not necessary for prosperity, and in far too many cases, aggression sets people back much more than it helps them.
The appeal to "charity" is a truly ironic one. First, it is hardly "charity" to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. -Rothbard
Prashanth Perumal: I learnt that the market-price system is a voting machine.
Doh!
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