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Care to provide some cliff’s notes orion?
do you care to provide a condensed version ?
Shit, I was going to start a similar thread and drop some Milton Friedman lectures, but I guess no one will watch them, lol
That is a good one for the “spread the wealth around” peeps.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Shit, I was going to start a similar thread and drop some Milton Friedman lectures, but I guess no one will watch them, lol
That is a good one for the “spread the wealth around” peeps.[/quote]
mattyg35: Hello countingbeans, what’s happening?
Uhhhh, we have sort of a problem here, yeaaaah, you apparently didn’t put one of the new summaries with the video you posted.
countingbeans: Oh yeah, I’m sorry about that, I forgot.
mattyg35(not listening to countingbeans): Mmmmm, yeah. You see we’re putting summaries on all long videos now before we post.
Did you see the memo about this?
countingbeans: uh, yeah, yeah, yeah I have the memo right here, I just, uh, forgot, but I can still edit my post and add a summary, so there’s no problem.
mattyg35(still not listening): Yeaaaaaaaah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on that would be great, and, uhhh, I’ll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo, mmkay? Bye bye countingbeans.
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
Care to provide some cliff’s notes orion?[/quote]
You want me to cliffnote Rothbard?
You Sir, are just barely a barbarian, almost a beast of the field.
Anyhow, why official definitions of cartels and monopolies are mostly nonsense, why they rarely, if ever work in a free market and probably what the eeeevil monopolies of the gilded age brought to the American consumer.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
do you care to provide a condensed version ?[/quote]
No.
You, you specifically, need to watch all of it, because you are the one insisting that “big business” would catapult us into a Blade Runner scenario if they were allowed to.
To level up is work, pretend to be Asian for a few hours.
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Shit, I was going to start a similar thread and drop some Milton Friedman lectures, but I guess no one will watch them, lol
That is a good one for the “spread the wealth around” peeps.[/quote]
mattyg35: Hello countingbeans, what’s happening?
Uhhhh, we have sort of a problem here, yeaaaah, you apparently didn’t put one of the new summaries with the video you posted.
countingbeans: Oh yeah, I’m sorry about that, I forgot.
mattyg35(not listening to countingbeans): Mmmmm, yeah. You see we’re putting summaries on all long videos now before we post.
Did you see the memo about this?
countingbeans: uh, yeah, yeah, yeah I have the memo right here, I just, uh, forgot, but I can still edit my post and add a summary, so there’s no problem.
mattyg35(still not listening): Yeaaaaaaaah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on that would be great, and, uhhh, I’ll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo, mmkay? Bye bye countingbeans.[/quote]
HAHA, dude your post made me laugh.
My best summary: You can’t have economic equality and freedom at the same time. Equal rights? Yes. Equal opportunity? Yes. Economic equality? Nope.
This whole class-warefare garbage, and the “pay your fair share” bullshit, it starts us down a path of no more freedom of choice.
Hey, maybe I’m wrong, I’ve only had the chance to watch it twice and was interrupted both times.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Shit, I was going to start a similar thread and drop some Milton Friedman lectures, but I guess no one will watch them, lol
That is a good one for the “spread the wealth around” peeps.[/quote]
mattyg35: Hello countingbeans, what’s happening?
Uhhhh, we have sort of a problem here, yeaaaah, you apparently didn’t put one of the new summaries with the video you posted.
countingbeans: Oh yeah, I’m sorry about that, I forgot.
mattyg35(not listening to countingbeans): Mmmmm, yeah. You see we’re putting summaries on all long videos now before we post.
Did you see the memo about this?
countingbeans: uh, yeah, yeah, yeah I have the memo right here, I just, uh, forgot, but I can still edit my post and add a summary, so there’s no problem.
mattyg35(still not listening): Yeaaaaaaaah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on that would be great, and, uhhh, I’ll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo, mmkay? Bye bye countingbeans.[/quote]
HAHA, dude your post made me laugh.
My best summary: You can’t have economic equality and freedom at the same time. Equal rights? Yes. Equal opportunity? Yes. Economic equality? Nope.
This whole class-warefare garbage, and the “pay your fair share” bullshit, it starts us down a path of no more freedom of choice.
Hey, maybe I’m wrong, I’ve only had the chance to watch it twice and was interrupted both times.[/quote]
Mmmmm, okay, thanks for that countingbeans.
Makes sense. You ever seen or heard of the short story, Harrison Bergeron?
Someone made a short film based on the story.
Here’s the story if you’re not familiar
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Enemy of the State
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Enemy of the State[/quote]
Far from it, Rothbard made his living not as a result of bringing value in a free market, but rather in the cushy confines as a professor at a public university enjoying the state-ordered monopoly of tenure and sinecures of salary and pension. According to his own standards, he wasn’t an “enemy of the state” - he was a teet-suckling bureaucrat whose paycheck was made up of money confiscated from market participants.
Rothbard feared the market he tried to venerate - and comfortably stayed behind the protective apron of the “hated” state.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Enemy of the State[/quote]
Far from it, Rothbard made his living not as a result of bringing value in a free market, but rather in the cushy confines as a professor at a public university enjoying the state-ordered monopoly of tenure and sinecures of salary and pension. According to his own standards, he wasn’t an “enemy of the state” - he was a teet-suckling bureaucrat whose paycheck was made up of money confiscated from market participants.
Rothbard feared the market he tried to venerate - and comfortably stayed behind the protective apron of the “hated” state.[/quote]
Okay, whatever you say, moron.
Rothbard has done more for the field of laissez faire economics than you can even imagine. Indeed, I doubt you have even read his tiny essay “Anatomy of the State” let alone his lengthy tome “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market”.
Sigh…Rothbard: Enemy of the morons.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Okay, whatever you say, moron.[/quote]
Aw, poor Lifty - one his heroes who, in addition to having bad ideas, is a raging hypocrite.
Rothbard loooooooooooooved the state - and while the rest of society was out growing wealth in the private sector by investing, producing and consuming, Rothbard wrote books that no one reads and that would not have supplied him with a living if he actually had to sell his books in the market…and had his meals, housing, and vacations paid for by confiscated wealth taken from the producers.
And, if Rothbard gets to enjoy the Good Life as provided by the state, how could he possibly complain if others want(ed) to do the same?
Without the sinecure of the state, there is no Murry Rothbard. Pretty good life for that old “enemy of the state”.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Okay, whatever you say, moron.[/quote]
Aw, poor Lifty - one his heroes who, in addition to having bad ideas, is a raging hypocrite.
Rothbard loooooooooooooved the state - and while the rest of society was out growing wealth in the private sector by investing, producing and consuming, Rothbard wrote books that no one reads and that would not have supplied him with a living if he actually had to sell his books in the market…and had his meals, housing, and vacations paid for by confiscated wealth taken from the producers.
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I could not find any sales figures for Rothbard, so I am pretty sure you could not either.
Anyhow, his books sell on Amazon, they are not bestsellers, but they sell.
Some of his books like “The Panic of 1819” are the scientific gold standard, whereas others, like “Man, Economy and State” and “Ethics of Liberty” are cornerstones of the modern libertarian movement, meaning, they are read.
[quote]orion wrote:
I could not find any sales figures for Rothbard, so I am pretty sure you could not either.[/quote]
Well, if his books could provide him a living in the marketplace, why didn’t he live off their publication?
And, since his books didn’t supply him a living via the market, didn’t he have an obligation to cease that unproductive endeavor and go find productive work instead of producing something that required a government subsidy and welfare?
I mean, that’s Rothbard’ theory, right? How come it is good for everyone else, except him?
I am listening to the 1rst one is my player broken because the picture has not moved . It is still of Rothbard @ the blackboard