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20 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Jan \ parent \ on: What Happens in a Mixed Economy? econ
I often think about Hoppe's "technical problem" description of these kinds of people. That is exactly how we have to think.
People who want to coexist peacefully and resolve their disputes without resorting to violence can all live under a libertarian market order.
Everyone else is a technical problem for us to mitigate against, just like bad weather, disease, and wild animals.
People who want to coexist peacefully and resolve their disputes without resorting to violence can all live under a libertarian market order. Everyone else is a technical problem for us to mitigate against, just like bad weather, disease, and wild animals.
Nope, they are not just a technical problem to mitigate against because they are vastly different from the problems you mentioned (is bad weather, especially man-made bad weather) something to mitigate against? It is very difficult to mitigate against those psychopaths and sociopaths that are the power seekers in society. They will seek power, one way or another, no matter the barriers and mitigation strategies you try to use. After all, they are human, too, no matter how you would deny that.
If we could separate them from us on, let’s say, a tropical island, you may just be forging a monster out of the competition on the island of horrors. The escape would be a rude awakening to the peaceful, voluntary free market society.
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I think "technical problem" is widely misunderstood.
The point is that we recognize that such people will exist (just like bad weather and disease) and we take whatever measures we need to to reduce their damage (just like we do with bad weather and disease).
Clothes, shelter, insurance, levies, etc. protect us against nature.
Medicine, hygiene, insurance, and doctors protect us against disease.
Guns, security services, insurance, etc protect us against rights violators.
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Guns, security services, insurance, etc protect us against rights violators.
I guess that also means the laws preventing self-defense have to be removed and the castle doctrine put in place for everyone, plus no retreat laws. It is hard to see in places where these laws are already in effect. The local tyrants seem to have the self-defense, especially against them all shut down.
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Well, yeah. We're talking about a Hoppean property rights based society.
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I always thought that Hoppe’s ideas were hopium. Those with the power and money, like the Rothschild and etc. Don’t really want to be separated from all that raw power and pelf. The only way we could get from here to there would be ugly, IMHO.
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Yeah, I think we're going to get to see it. Evil people can't be expected to give up power easily.
That doesn't mean they can hold onto power, though.