@freepatriot When the jackboots kick in your door, you have moments to decide if you're going to give the feds your guns bullet first or not. Which way, Western man?
Americans say that they will just ignore the US collapse, but what will you do when the Gestapo knock down your door to give you an anal swab virus test, mandatory vaccine, and confiscate your guns?
What will you do when inflation is 1 million percent and the US defaults on the debt, Civil War 2.0 starts, and looters stab people with butter knives over a can of corn?
What will you do when the US starts WWIII with Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia and the nuclear bombs explode around you?
Americans say that they will just ignore the US collapse, but what will you do when the Gestapo knock down your door to give you an anal swab virus test, mandatory vaccine, and confiscate your guns?
What will you do when inflation is 1 million percent and the US defaults on the debt, Civil War 2.0 starts, and looters stab people with butter knives over a can of corn?
What will you do when the US starts WWIII with Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia and the nuclear bombs explode around you?
He's talking about within a country.
Is it markets, or technology, that improves the lives of so many?
In my view, the cumulative nature of technology began under the aristocrats and would not have without them.
Capitalism does a great job of economies of scale, which drives down costs and raises quality over time with competition, given an intelligent enough population.
This is why Leftists attack intelligence. It is easier to rule morons.
In my view, this is the future of work.
No benefits, no permanent jobs, just hourly contracting.
It avoids the problem of people just going through the motions and then feeling (partially correctly) enslaved by this.
Jobs are jails.
I would add here, waxing a bit pagan or Anglican perhaps, that individuals cannot invent goal/meaning since such things are at least derived from or dependent upon the world.
Either that, or libertarianism is an ingredient in successful societies.
We can summarize it simply: no socialism.
In my view, liberty/freedom is a means not an end.
That is, people thrive better in a state of as much freedom/liberty as you can give them.
To the founding fathers in the USA, "freedom" meant not being roped into someone else's religious or political crusades.
The American war for independence can be seen as an extended protest against the wars in France...