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How Non-Capitalists Benefit From Capitalism w/ Johan Norberg

by Keith Knight | Dec 22, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/cR981Xk7WPs Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make their own decisions about what they think will improve their lives. So careless talk about ‘taking control of capitalism’ actually means that governments take control of citizens. - Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto Watch on BitChute

Is War Inevitable? Lessons From History w/ Scott Horton

by Keith Knight | Nov 24, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/5_dZBu3zJxw The chronic Middle East crisis goes hack--as do many crises--to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over. But, at the same time, the British government, with characteristic double-dealing, was promising Arab Palestine as a "National Home" for organized Zionism. These promises were not on the same moral plane: for in the former case, the Arabs were being promised their own land freed from Turkish domination; and in the latter, world...

The Case for Private Governance

by Keith Knight | Oct 22, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/OrMnU-xyz1Y A country club or a night club not only provide a physical space for leisure, but they also have rules of entry and conduct. The same is true of places of business or living like shopping malls, apartment complexes, stock exchanges, and financial intermediaries. eBay, for example, is a club that facilitates trade with reputation mechanisms and dispute resolution services. It evaluates the marginal benefits and marginal costs of having various rules or dispute resolution mechanisms and seeks to make its market as attractive as possible. American Express is another...

Former Public School Teacher Becomes an Anarcho-Capitalist!

by Keith Knight | Oct 18, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/VgWy_H6C7vU That two men have no more natural right to exercise any kind of authority over one, than one has to exercise the same authority over two. A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber (or by any other name indicating his true character), or by millions, calling themselves a government. - Lysander Spooner, No Treason (Part 1, Sec 2) Jack Lloyd is a multimedia content producer for liberty. His work...

Yaron Brook Slanders Dave Smith, Scott Horton, and Libertarians on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict!

by Keith Knight | Oct 10, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/W8pr9oR1JUk The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has been tracking deaths in the conflict since 2008 and its data shows that 5,600 Palestinians died up to 2020 while 115,000 were injured. 250 Israelis died during the same period while 5,600 were injured. - The Human Cost Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Statista.com Watch on BitChute

Propaganda: Using Fear to Justify Tyranny

by Keith Knight | Oct 8, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/mrsb5cE_1jo ...[W]e human beings, as social animals, need individual freedom to fully flourish. The equation is simple: individual freedom = social cooperation = individual and social flourishing. Many corollaries follow. To pick one, the freedom to choose with whom we will cooperate entails competition among those who wish to cooperate with any given individual. – Sheldon Richman, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other Watch on BitChute

The Truth About the Free Market: Profit, Competition, and Greed

by Keith Knight | Sep 29, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/UXTHDHYmFK4 The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire him. Their demand for his services makes it in the self-interest of his own employer to pay him the full value of his work. If his own employer doesn't, someone else may be ready to do so. Competition for his services—that is the worker's real protection. - Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose...

Justice is Coming! Cenk Uygur & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Sep 19, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/yMgGKxC2nJ8 [L]eftists (the ones who are anti-state but also support social safety nets) could have most to everything they want in an anarchist society in the form of mutual aid societies. Those are the types of leftists that are worth reaching out to, unlike neoliberals. – Ace Archist, guest speaker at the Libertarian Institute. Cenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the largest online news show in the world. We discuss the ideas in his new book, Justice is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America is Going to Love It