Thank you Nick. You really are a legend !!!!!

There is no ideal system but I like the Gondor system. The King's exclusive duties are to lead the military and enforce the basic laws and traditions. No lawmaking ability other than refusal to enforce laws. The legislative body is comprised of men who have protected the people or served smaller posts with dignity.

Not allowing someone to build a bridge over your house is completely compatible with libertarianism and I flatly reject the version of private property rights that stops at the highest point of your roof. In Walter Block's version of private property a helipad can be installed above your house provided the property is accessed from the side. This is absurd.

But if they're fighting with bullets and all you have are ideas...

Wish i could be there in person

What is that accent? Is he gay? Or is that a posh aussie thing?

Hoppe is such a merry fellow

Hans Herman Hop Hans Herman Hoppa Hans Herman Hoppy His name has been pronounced, so to speak, in many different ways.

HHH ❤

First success: Milei won!

11 years later covid makes this talk all too prescient

Popper was not a positivist ! He was the outstanding critic of the Viennese Circle ! Hoppe clearly doesn't understand Popper !

So logically bankrupt. Hoppe destroyed his whole mumble jumble without even trying.

Proving once again that Libertarianism is completely unserious and utopian.

Communists are horrifying

Hans Is the most important German since Martin Luther.

What's baffling to me is that in the age of the internet these great ideas haven't spread across the world and been implemented by the masses yet?! Wake up & get to it, proles!

Maybe it's just me, but the video and the audio are totally out of sync. So out of sync that the intro by Samuel Marks is completely missing.

A rented car is also a Very good exemple

Toll roads and bridges are a detriment to those trying to commute in an efficient manner, not a benefit.

Braindead objection after braindead objection. Kid in the suit saying free marketers don't mention safety enough. Bro, get it through your thick skull, the free market isn't about a set solution or number of solutions, it's about humans using their creativity to solve problems and other humans voluntarily agreeing or disagreeing. Voting with their patronage. So if the people in X area value rigidity, rigidity will probably prevail. In Y area that values getting home fastest, that's probably what will flourish. There is no limit on solutions, this isn't 2+2.

Listening to this after turning into an anarchist really brings to mind the quote: "What are presented as the strongest arguments against anarchism are descriptions of the status quo" -eminem. Especially that guy who said Block assumed people were rational. Braindead take. Politicians took trillions of dollars for war in the middle east, stole a bunch, killed millions, and all over lies. Maniacs exist, at least in the market they can be punished for their actions. Remember when the Biden admin droned a handful of children? No one even lost their job.

Does he really understand SHA-256?!?

Miners are not nodes.

Discrimination is inherently irrational. Correlation is not causation.

I know its obvious to many that pollution at its very core is a trespass on private property, however, its enlightening to hear Dr Block's explanation for this.

3:05 - Talk commences 5:30 - Mises 'Laissez-Faire" Song 9:40 - Lecture Overview 11:10 - Current Research Interests 11:30 - Need Robust Defense of Liberty 13:27 - Why the Radical French School Deserves Our Attention 14:04 - Key Radical Figures of Classical Liberal French School of Political Economy 18:19 - The "Austrian Moment" 20:05 - What Makes the Austrian School "Austrian" 25:45 - What about Social Theory? 26:30 - Cultural Impact of French School compared to now 32:13 - Recent Times Success

I wish this video was Hoppe on poppers 😁

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51:00 digital books can be easily changed or have parts removed wo anyone being made aware. which can, potentially, be more dangerous than book burning. & access can be restricted remotely. digital money is the same. we just have to be aware. thr is always a push and pull. -JC

48:00 all this biz is gr8. hyack is pretty good too. gr8 lecture. -JC

19:00 is this intentional misunderstanding, or straw manning JT? this is "defund the police" level cartoonish painting of socialism. it is equal to me saying all approaches to market are the same: it is all economics, what's the difference. i dont use the S or C word (even the other C word, if i can help it). bc ideology can get in the way of solutions. i like issues, not charged terms. tho i get that this is for this audience .the first mover advantage remains powerful. it is why pfizer dominate the vac market (among other less savory tactics). i really though j+j "one & done" (then changing mind later on 'new information' business way). they are as evil as pfizer. i thought. boy did i miscall that one. gr8 lecture. -JC

we agree on so much. *a very Ltd Gvt w blind assignment of enforcement tasks (like when medical science works). random. everything w multiple quasi random checks: that is a place for hopeful msging for change in our lifetime*, & knowing business will try and infiltrate that too. always: & that is ok. the natsec corporate state. banking crime. groups collecting power. it will always hapn. but the state *_can_* use the restricted behemoth (read my book <3) to keep capital from pooling or power concentrating. no such thing is true for a series of unchained corporate behavior. it will have all of the problems you ascribe to Gvt: but *zero* infrastructure to remedy it. or even _try._ we've seen what hapns when private armies and pinkertons for private companies do not want a strike. or when independent companies get together and choose prices, then do not pay a living wage, nor invest or "innovate", instead only pocketing more cash & controlling more industries - it is neither better than Gvt, nor a solution to any of those fundamental problems. but Gvt is closer to correct. & yes, that means some system of taxes for cohesion & common good. interesting thoughts tho JT =). i have not re-visited the political philosophers in a while. -JC

gr8 lecture. but no matter what, it ends in *checks and balances:* the "anomalies" in the system is the Gvt not enforcing common wealth (usually bc business got involved somewhere and started thieving things!). social security _can be_ a ponzi scheme, for the reasons you mention. the state outlives the actors. if we are trying to deal w infinity (ideally); just keep passing the bag. feels counterintuitive, i know. yes, all the complaints of the state are true: *but even more true in unchecked business behavior. even more.* finding a way to check the checks has to be the answer. very enjoyable tho. -JC

*11:30** i hear you: but same w companies, nest ce pas? but at least the state can check them. (on paper >>. but it is a start, more than the free market unregulated has.)* nothing stops the self serving nature of business. nothing. -JC

*48:00** china could cut it off at the serves, at the cable access, at the companies, banning vpns: it is not unenforceable, it is by design.* not to be a downer. it is for chilling where you cant reach. the same way how on weibo it doesnt block political speech always, perse, you get a label or a pop up warning _"most of your peers do not post this kind of political speech. is this really what you meant?"_ . it is why, if you ask someone from china about politics they say "chinese ppl are not interested in talking about politics all day!". incidentally, similar to the labels we now get on everything here since the pandemic. but i know you are concerned w such things already. another gr8 lecture. <3. -JC

14:00 run by FEDs. that is known, right? the 2nd silk road for sure. (but maybe both). im sure ive had debriefs on the silk road operation. -JC

*beautiful. touching and inspirational.* except we will never have fair markets without a force to run against them (or regulate them); thr will never be anything without safety, and thr will always be a pendulum of power that will attract the worst instincts, and has to be checked. & we have to live in the real world: which means we will never agree on the need for national security (not to the point we already face authoritarianism at home; but it can not be allowed into our lives, via those who have banded together under a conflicting values flag, from the outside either. ever try to get a ska band to rehearsal? pragmatism). & thr will always be large projects, and safety nets, that best not be handled by capital. this does feel utopian. it is that we can not control *anyone* ; and Gvt is a group of people. finally, we do not start from zero: we start from today. today. we are not starting again, to try something else, we are starting from here. to try something else. gr8 lecture JT. -JC

Kings hold responsibility whether they like it or not. Everyone knows who has all the power. Under a democracy the blame is always passed to the other party.

That was great

SO TO SPEAK 😎

Immagine Robinson Crussoe with a lot of paper money. It's value outside the coercive apparatus of the state would be made explicit instantly.

Hoppean principles should be applied by localities first before anyone even thinks of them ever being adopted nationally or even state wide. And that goes for any principles or ideals or strategies in political things. It's how they got ahold of their current seats, and as much as many want to just throw out the seats and rugs from under them, I can't see how that can happen until the majority of local positions are already filled with, and every mandate, decree, and unreasonable and absurd restriction or regulation is repealed. Shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed. The hoppean snake must return.

Little did this Aussie know that the Rapper/Metalcore singer (Eric July) was right around the corner.

America needs to apply Hoppean principles, and physically remove commiecrats. I'd like to see them off to China on a one-way ticket.

Hoppe’s argumentation ethics, applied as a poppers scientific method would be an unstoppable force. Pointing out the contradictions of the left, namely those found as a consequence of dialectics performatively contradictory nature.

STOP EATING AND LISTEN TO YOUR TEACHER.

I love how the rap question came up and Block was like, "Well, it would be great for someone to do that," and now we have Eric July! The market, uh, finds a way!

Read Frédéric Bastiat.. The Law..

Read the Bible...it is setup by the Lord. You live and breath by his permission. At His will, and his decree one's days are numbered and cannot live one extra day more than that which He gives.