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the erosion of purchasing power as the currency gets debased by monetizing debt. as long as the government debt increases debt at a an increasing rate (which it has already done to a tipping point), then the currency is destined to be crash in value because it will be dumped in exchange for stronger currencies in the world. Social security is already determined to be in complete crisis in 16 years according to the government's own website. the government will have nothing in the "trust" fund in 16 years lol. idk how much that hole will be, but lol if the government ends up just printing money to pay social security in 2032. I think all the governments medical programs will face the same issues in less time. Costs in the medical industry are going to get insane over the next 10 years. I expect medications and technology to be advancing at such a rate, that every treatment and piece of equipment will be more costs than its weight in gold. Also the workload on medical professionals, red tape, college costs, old doctors retiring, will make human resources a nightmare, and again the cost on the government entitlement programs crippling. This will also be pursued by money printing. The scarier thing will be the government putting in prices controls, and good luck for all the americans under obamacare when you go to the ER and they have no pain killers. when you get your social security check in 20 years, you will not think "government debt isnt bad" when your fixed income won't be enough to retire.

i just dont think it matters either way. there is a case for abstaining from voting instead of going for the lesser of two evils, because the state can spin voting as a contractual agreement for whatever the state chooses to do. when you vote its not like you submit a one page write up for why you voted. when the state claims they have the consent of the govern, they have no clue as to the limits of what the governed have consented to.

goes to show no matter where you come from, what worldview you have, how smart you are, everyone things the world is ending.

Its disturbing that the people who will tell you that they are convinced of climate change do almost nothing to stop climate change. If an asteroid was heading toward earth and there was an agency that told you that they had a very good missile that would eliminate the asteroid, there would be hundreds of millions of people giving whatever dollar amount necessary to fund the operation, to the point that the voluntary human action would be excessive at some point. similar to how natural disasters become charitable disasters. People who say they believe in climate change, must believe that it is similar to an asteroid like situation. its something that will affect their grandchildren and their great grandchildren, as bernie sanders has said. So why are they not doing anything about it beside voting for certain politicians, which is the highest form of slactivism, its worse than commenting on youtube videos, because voting for government programs leads to worse outcomes, as opposed to awareness which can change people's behavior. Why when you look at rush hour traffic is there no teams of bike riders in the shoulders and bike paths along the highway? Why are democrats not abstaining from procreation with the stated intent of stopping global warming? Why are democrats not taking on a monk lifestyle? Why aren't they preppers? Why are they paying taxes knowing how much government agencies pollute? Why is climate change not the #1 issue (according to polls) among democrats? Why are they donating to all kinds of organizations that seek to preserve human life, such as cancer research? Why are they not boycotting the airline industry? Why do they still mow their lawn? they should all move into apartments Why are they not creating massive funds for alternative energy? If you look at the billions that are donated to politicians and other organizations, and then imagine all that money could have gone toward reducing emissions. Its like a person telling you how they are convinced the world will end on September 22, but they still show up to work and never change their lifestyle. obviously they are not actually convinced the world will end.

omg. just found this. the former soviet guy describes what i laid out lol

and on the monopoly game. Where are the results of the control group? wouldnt the control group be, to put a poor person in the upper hand position in the monopoly game and see how his attitude compares to other demographics of players? i know his point was that people born into lucky situations feel entitled bla bla bla. but what about putting people born into unlucky circumstances, into a position of luck, and see how they pan out. i think people who come from better families and more economic opportunity are more likely to make good decisions, and handle being wealthy, better than someone who is simply handed a lot of money after all their formative years have gone. look at lotto winners.

owning a fancy car =/=, it could mean less net worth because cars are depreciating assets. a wealthy person may eat less candy in their everyday lives. this is an assumption that many leftist like to make, the mantra, "it costs more to eat healthy". so using their own logic, and the nature of type A folks, i think wealthy people consume less candy in general. so when presented with candy as a gift, they may enjoy it more because to them its more of a treat and something they rarely treat to themselves. as a result, they will not give up their candy as much as someone less well off. on the monopoly game. of course you will feel like you deserve to win when the deck is stacked in your favor. thats human nature. when i play poker at the casino and someone goes broke when they are a 70% favorite, its not surprising when people dont take it lightly. and many people who appear to take it lightly, are probably reeling inside. its not irrational for someone who feels they deserve to win (for example, when a game is rigged in their favor), to come back to the table. its called long run expected value. as long as you have a positive expected value in a game, you will correctly feel that you deserve to win in the long run.

thats a lot of platitudes for this young lady, she should be a politician.

i dont think that writer knows what authoritarian means.

yep. red herring is very common. i think its also just shocking how people ignore the fact that all the "free" stuff government gives us, they are paying for with taxes. people dont even know that social security is matched by their employer and that depresses wages etc. nerd wallet looked at this, and they concluded that the average household in the US pays $19000 a year in taxes. and i dont think they included that SS tax the employer pays. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/cities/how-much-do-americans-really-pay-taxes-2015/

higher quality care in the US with more advanced equipment and procedures. But most importantly, a larger advanced age population with medicare, basically a massive government subsidy for the portion of the population that is the most sickly. We might have the largest old age population in the world outside of India, china, pakistan.

its bad because it blows up the left narrative that oil companies are greedy and conspiring with speculators to maintain high oil prices forever. it also blows up the idea that rising prices are good, even though any consumer will tell you that lower gas prices are an economic boom to them.

Some minarchy arguments can be the most annoying. They say, we need a state to run a court and criminal justice system. So they basically support anarchy. what i mean is, if the world economy was 99% free market firms and 1% firms-that-did-criminal justice-but-we-called-it-a-state, im pretty sure this counts as anarchy.

why not just cut taxes, along with announcing a permanent tax cut?

I was doing a thought experiment of, imagine if tomorrow the Federal Government (any country) was a socialist dictatorship. What would be some changes that you would immediately take effect. I look at the droves of Bernie Sanders supporters, and other left wing groups that have momentum in the US. If there was a socialist dictatorship, the ironic thing is, all the bernie sanders supporters and young left wingers in the country would be the first ones to be put in gulags or executed. the government would do it for 5 reasons. 1. its a socialist dictatorship, they cull the population and terrorize people, its what they do. 2. People who oppose you (right wingers) could feel embolden to see people they have always disliked be mistreated. Its the best thing a dictatorship could do to win over people that werent ideologically aligned with them. 3. People who are educated (lets assume left wingers are educated) are a bigger threat to power, because they can "wake up" at some point. 4. Large groups of people who turn against a regime they once were ideologically in favor of, are much more dangerous to power, because they would be allied with people who secretly disapproved with the regime. 5. keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

good job

no because its not universally applicable. because somebody's want is not being met, it doesnt entail that i ought to satisfy them and by not satisfying im commiting force. if i want to have sex with your wife, she rejects me, is she initiating for against me? assuming she is initiating force, am i justified to rape her?

stef is always good on alex jones. and i think he gets a kick out of how animated alex is. i know i do lol

welcome buddy. and what do you see that makes you so eager to join this discussion. do you have grandchildren that you dont know what the future holds for them?

Welcome! Read the book Everyday Anarchy, its free on this site, and is a great educational book on economics. more important than anything you will learn at school.

being logical is a virtue 1+1=2 but what about cultures who dont have math in their language? doesnt that prove logic isnt a virtue? therefore not knowing 1+1=2 can be virtuous.

i wish i had different parents #1. i was always deceived into believing that getting good grades and graduating college was the key to success, of course thats wrong. i was smart enough to see thru the lie but not sophisticated enough to know that i had more power over my life than my parents led me to believe. helicopter parenting ingrains that following a system as prescribed by abusive parents and public education is the path to success. i didnt 100% break myself from that conditioning until shortly after college.

i think stefan just likes trump on the fact so many people hate trump for irrational reasons. trump could be a closet ancap tho, theres more than you would think who are either big business men or government insiders. Ron Paul is a good example of a dude who is most likely a closeted ancap but he has enough immorality in him to use the access he has to mass media to spread a minarchist position.