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Things I could do without government

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eliotn Posted: Fri, Aug 22 2008 5:00 PM

Write about things you could do in the US, if the satist government was not around (things they would punish you for doing if they knew about it).  However, do not post things that violate other's property. Be creative and have fun!

 

1.  Start a business that deals with cocaine.

2.  Start a school that teaches people self-defense (with everything from guns to fists).

3.  Create homebrewed medicine.

4.  Hoard all of my money. (no taxes!)

5.  Teach agorism, while practicing what I preached.

Schools are labour camps.

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Burn all of my austrian economics book and run around town naked before the DROs get set up

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I heard you can make an easy $80,000 a year growing your own weed. My dad homebrews beer so I could learn and do that. LOL.

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Burn all of my austrian economics book and run around town naked before the DROs get set up

YEAH

 

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If everyone could grow weed without fear of state reprisal, you would have a lot of competition.  You'd have to innovate or be very talented with production, marketing etc.

Something cool would be the gourmet marijuana food products catering towards people with cancer, ala "American Drug War".  I bet there is a national or global market for that. Chinese food with marijuana.  Indian food with marijuana.  Mexican food with, yep, marijuana.  Marijuana seafood, cough drops and get this, my killer product.

Marijuana Visine.  So you get high as you clear up your bloodshot eyes!

If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North

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1. Start distributing or encourage more natural product medicine.

2. Distribute IP freely. (I don't think this violates property)

3. Pave my lawn with concrete and paint it green.

4. Catch small fish and keep them.

5. Almost forgot.  Grow my own tobacco.

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Morty replied on Fri, Aug 22 2008 7:02 PM

It seems to me that any conceivable thing you could write here could be forbidden by contract or private property rules without the government. Just a thought.

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krazy kaju replied on Fri, Aug 22 2008 10:52 PM

liberty student:
Marijuana Visine.  So you get high as you clear up your bloodshot eyes!


You are my hero.

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liberty student:
4. Catch small fish and keep them.

Winner.

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Homestead corpses, so long as they are clearly abandoned of course.

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Smoke in a pub again

Go to a rifle range

 

Brainpolice:
Homestead corpses, so long as they are clearly abandoned of course.

 

You mean, like, dress them up in clothes and funny hats?

Austrians do it a priori

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Brainpolice:
Homestead corpses, so long as they are clearly abandoned of course.

 

You mean, like, dress them up in clothes and funny hats?

Well, once they are homesteaded, yes, I suppose one could theoretically do something of the sort. Or much stranger things (*cough* necrophilia). Not that I'm into such things of course, just pointing out a theoretical possibility that amuses me.

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Help those with relatively low merit to develope more merit.

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Bank Run replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 6:12 AM

Hard to say what I would be good at in a a free market, but I know all the goods would be better goods. I may loose alot of my altruism, if there were no main-man(state) to gripe about. I would excel at philosophy in a world were there is time and care for it, perhaps. I observe the generally lay(who I wish not to greave over) really get downright angy, whenever there head gets a spark. I don't mind exposing my weaknesses as probable streangths, I hope folks can get something out of that, other than loathing my facade. I believe we can get more goodies that are more good, when there is no market intervention.

Individualism Rocks

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LED-bubls replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 7:38 AM

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Help Morty spread restrictive covenants to ruin all your fun.

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Fephisto replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 9:54 AM

Here's what I'd do:

 

1)  Liquidate the rest of my savings into platinum. (quickly, as fast as I could, because the bank runs would probably be insane)

2)  Buy a gun, not having to worry about licensing.


3)  Get two friends of mine starting capital to start up a DRO, a hopefully very profitable investment when the state has immediately disappeared.

4)  Start a full-reserve bank, and be able to actually advertise agorist activity.  I'll start up a full-reserve bank at first with only a stall RIGHT NEXT to the bank having the run.

"Keynesianomics is a Ponzi scheme."

"You are correct in that Capitalism does not help with poverty, because it eliminates poverty altogether..."

"That wonderful strawman:  greed."

Inequality bad. Zip it!Zip it!Zip it!

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mpablazer replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 12:00 PM

1.  Afford to either work a little less and homeschool my children or afford to send them to a private school

2.  Create a social service business with equity financing in a social services equity market with real business incentives to owners and managers.  Watch social issues melt away as the market solves them.

3.  Reclaim the 200 acres taken from my family for "watershed protection".  Let 100 acres of that out for crop production for undernourished Alabamians (hey, I value helping others more than I value that land for my own use - I'll get food out of it too).

4.  Sit back and laugh at all the useless, skill-less leaches that worked for government or off of government funding sit back and realize that they are useless and skill-less!

5.  Join, leave, join, leave, join, and leave whatever group(s) I want within the letter of contracts I have knowingly entered into.

 

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Solomon replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 9:57 PM

Invent a better product and sell it the same way one would today, but without the warning label!

Wooh!  I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

Diminishing Marginal Utility - IT'S THE LAW!

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Fephisto replied on Sat, Aug 23 2008 10:32 PM

Solomon:

 

Invent a better product and sell it the same way one would today, but without the warning label!

Wooh!  I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

Oh yeah!  I forgot the _really_ silly things the government prevents us from doing!

 

I'll buy more than the legal amount of cocaine to carry.  And NOT DO ANYTHING WITH IT.

I'll ride a bicycle on the sidewalk!

If I see no one coming, I'll ignore those signs that say, "No turn on red"!

Oh, and best of all, I'll enjoy some truely decent joy-riding, 90+ mph!

"Keynesianomics is a Ponzi scheme."

"You are correct in that Capitalism does not help with poverty, because it eliminates poverty altogether..."

"That wonderful strawman:  greed."

Inequality bad. Zip it!Zip it!Zip it!

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