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Taxpayers Are Shocked to Discover That When They Vote for Government Services, They Have to Pay for Them Myth of the rational voter, indeed. There is such a startling disconnect between cause and effect, or maybe people who vote for more government believe that they will never bear the cost. I wonder if past generations realize the ruin they've wrought upon themselves and their families, because it's obvious that most of them weren't concerned about it 40 years ago. What's it like to see a gallon of gas go from 25¢ to $4? These are just a bunch of children voting. More toys! Gimme, gimme! People who cannot reason must learn through experience, and some are too stupid to learn even from that.

I don't believe in the supernatural, yet my existence has purpose and meaning.

What is your objective?

California couple faces fine for brown lawn after complying with water-saving rules The State is not a problem-solving organization. It causes and exacerbates problems. A water shortage exists in California because of the State. Nobody in the State knows how to deal with the drought because the type of people who work for the State are not problem solvers; that's why they work for the State.

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Being stupid and foolish isn't the same thing as being retarded. A retarded person might not have a sufficiently developed mental faculty to exercise good judgement. Paul Krugman isn't retarded, but he is stupid and foolish. In a free society, in which individuals would be responsible for the consequences of their own behavior, an enormous price would be paid for being stupid, foolish, and reckless. Presently, the State subsidizes ill-advised and imprudent behavior by externalizing the cost through various welfare programs, so people who are incapable of learning through reason and evidence are spared the pain of learning through experience.

You're right. Austrian economics doesn't predict. For the record, I often argue from morality, but the OP asked about different types of anarchisms. I ascribe to anarcho-capitalism, rather than other kinds, because it gets both the morality and economics correct (assuming one wishes to maximize prosperity).

It isn't necessary to conduct controlled experiments to demonstrate direct causation with different societies, and it isn't possible, anyway (Austrian economists acknowledge this). Austrian economics is deductive, which forms conclusions through reasoning. Austrian economics is remarkably accurate in its predictions, and we can observe its predictions unfold in the real world.

Under anarcho-capitalism, coordination of production is facilitated through the pricing mechanism (itself a result of free exchange on the market). The result of this coordination is what gives us computers, smart phones, and stocked shelves at grocery stores. The more interference there is with the pricing mechanism by State intervention, the greater the malinvestment and dislocations. Real-world examples in the U.S. would include the housing and asset bubbles, and shortages and lines during natural disasters that result from price controls and crackdowns on so-called "price gougers." In places with central planning, such as Venezuela, people stand in line all day to get food and personal care products. We're observing the economy of Venezuela slowly grind to a hault in front of our eyes. The more the government interferes, the worse the problem becomes. When I say that left-anarchists do not oppose private property in principle, they demonstrate this through their actions. One cannot denounce private property and simultaneously demand shelter. To do so would be a performative contradiction.

We don't have to imagine how different types of anarchistic societies would look; we can simply observe real-world examples of societies with varying degrees of private property. Societies in which private property is largely respected produce prosperity for the masses while societies with little or no private property cause impoverishment.Left-anarchists aren't opposed to private property or hierarchy in principle; only in rhetoric.Regarding hierarchy, they oppose monarchy and oligarchy, but not ochlocracy. In other words, they support hierarchy in the form of an inverted pyramid.Regarding private property, they use words and phrases such as 'possessions' and 'occupation and use' in lieu of private property. The objective is to frame the debate in such a way as to rationalize trespass and larceny while vilifying people who justly acquired their property and don't want to be expropriated. Some left-anarchists will accuse property owners of statism, landlordism, rent-seeking, fiefdom, etc.

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I'm in Orange county, and I know some people in San Diego who might be interested. What sort of meetup did you have in mind?

I'm as equally opposed to welfare parasites as I am to corporate subsidies. Somebody is being expropriated to furnish that money. People who want to live a simple, ascetic lifestyle (eg. rural folk) are no threat to anyone, but primitivists and neo-Luddites who deliberately undermine and destroy capital formation are.

It's possible for everyone to be wealthy. What is wealth and where does it come from? Wealth is an improvement in one's living conditions. Wealth creation is a process of recursive transformation of resources through production and underconsumption. Examples of wealth include smart phones, computers, electronics, appliances, robotics, mechanization, and medical devices. So, the question is, why isn't everyone wealthy? Two reasons immediately come to mind: 1) parasites who live at the expense of others via expropriation, and 2) some people consume more than they produce.

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Indeed, when I order a large pizza, how will I know that it's really a large?

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