WHY should charity be VOLUNTARY? Charity is SACRIFICE, a gift to help others. YOUR gifts sacrifice YOU. GOVT gifts sacrifice OTHERS. NOBODY rightfully sacrifices others.

“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe” ― Carl Sagan

Libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick is Miniarchism’s most famous academic proponent. In his 1974 landmark book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick argues for a night-watchman state, with government reduced to its barest essentials: the military, the police, and the courts. The term “night-watchman state” was actually coined as an insult by a German socialist named Ferdinand Lassalle in 1862. But Nozick adopted it as an ideal, arguing that individuals have absolute negative rights - such as the right to liberty and property - that serve as "moral side constraints upon what we may do." These boundaries cannot be crossed by anyone, including a democratic majority, but Nozick's set out to demonstrate to anarchists that a "night-watchman state" could emerge naturally and legitimately without violating anyone’s individual rights. The night-watchman state remains a foundational ideal for libertarian thought, sparking enduring debates about the true balance between individual liberty and collective responsibility.

Most so-called “liberals” openly oppose those principles promoted by the European Enlightenment. They reject objective reality, critical thinking, limited government, free markets, and individual rights. Leftists are anti-Enlightenment.

“La caída de los precios a través de una mayor producción es una maravillosa tendencia a largo plazo del capitalismo sin trabas.” Murray Rothbard

The U.S. has 989 billionaires. And 23.8 million millionaires. (That’s more than 24,000x the number of billionaires.)

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Donald Trump is the authoritarian socialist president that Republicans used to warn about.

Microeconomics studies the economy from the perspective of the individual actor, as choice, interaction, and action. Macroeconomists, in contrast, study statistical aggregates and tend to assert that the aggregates have stable natures and behaviors of their own.

The great tension in #economics is between those, today unfortunately a majority, who think of the economy as a mechanistic system, a motor to be run, used, repaired, and fueled, and those who recognize that the economy is fundamentally human and social. #econtwitter

Socialism is an economic and political system where the the government owns and controls the major means of production. So, the same entity running the post office in the US, would be responsible for everything. Anyone who supports this does not have sound judgement.

I fucking hate Republicans I hate Democrats more. Why would I bother to vote for either?

The best thing a government can do in any given situation is absolutely nothing.

Anyone can take a pie and redistribute it. Creating the pie is the hard part.

“It’s the fault of capitalism I can’t afford my medicine.” Without capitalism, there wouldn’t be your medicine.

“People over profit” is one of the strangest slogans imaginable because profit, in voluntary trade, generally comes from serving people. Every customer who buys from you is effectively saying, “I value what you’re offering more than the money you’re asking for it.” The seller makes the opposite valuation, and both expect to gain. The irony is that “people over profit” often means putting someone’s political judgment over both people—overriding what the buyer chooses to buy, what the seller chooses to offer, and what each considers valuable. Profit doesn’t put profit over people. It emerges from people making their own choices. The slogan proposes putting political preferences over theirs.

Socialism: an idea so good, they had to rebrand it completely to try to fool people into falling for it

What owners do is invest capital, assume the risk, and hire people to perform work for an agreed wage. Those workers get paid whether the investment ultimately turns a profit or a loss. There’s no “weird alchemy.” The owner bought the mine, financed the operation, paid for the equipment, hired the labor, and assumed the possibility of losing the investment. Apparently ownership becomes mysterious only after the investment succeeds.

If you laughed, we can probably be friends.

“Scientists were wrong before.” Of course. That’s why science contains experiments, replication and correction. Being capable of discovering you’re wrong is a strength, not a flaw.

Science doesn’t require scientists to be perfect. It requires their claims to be testable. That’s the clever bit.