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How to Tell if a Politician is Evil or Ignorant (feat. Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Sep 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/zJCEQRVgUTs My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits of war are highly uncertain. [Empirical claim about people’s ability to accurately forecast the long-run effects of war]. These empirical claims imply pacifism when combined with a bland moral premise: Premise #3: For a war to be morally justified, the expected long-run benefits have to substantially exceed its short-run costs....

9 Mind-Blowing Contributions From Thomas Sowell (feat. Wilfred Reilly, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Sep 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/HA_zM96coww To many people, even today, high profits are often attributed to high prices charged by those motivated by “greed.” In reality, most of the great fortunes in American history have resulted from someone’s figuring out how to reduce costs, so as to be able to charge lower prices and therefore gain a mass market for the product. Henry Ford did this with automobiles, Rockefeller with oil, Carnegie with steel, and Sears, Penney, Walton and other department store chain founders with a variety of products. A supermarket chain in a capitalist economy can be very...

Debunking the Top 5 Feminist Conspiracy Theories! (feat. Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Sep 14, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/VJqy-qP5ZtU Listing the main ways that society appears to treat men less fairly than women requires only a little more reflection to complete. Topping the list: a. Men are overrepresented at the bottom levels of society. They do most of the nasty, dangerous work, are much more likely to be homeless or imprisoned, and much more likely to kill themselves. b. Men spend much more time on the job than women. c. The law heavily favors women in child custody and child support disputes. d. Men are more likely to be victims of violent crime. e. Men are much more likely to die in...

How Free Markets Make Poor Countries Wealthy (feat. Benjamin Powell, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Sep 10, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/fmh1JeGAVP0 Here’s why: almost a hundred years ago, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises explained that socialism, even if run by benevolent despots and populated with workers willing to work for the common good, could still not match capitalism’s performance. Socialism requires abolishing private property in the means of production. But private property is necessary to have the free exchange of labor, capital, and goods that establish proper prices. Without proper prices, socialist planners could not know which consumer goods were needed or how best to produce...

Zelenskyy Enslaves Men Into the Military

by Keith Knight | Sep 5, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/hHLQ3qRPIxg "In particular, it is forbidden for men aged 18–60, Ukraine citizens, to leave the borders of Ukraine," a statement from the service said, according to CNN. "This regulation will remain in effect for the period of the legal regime of martial law. We ask the citizens to take this information into consideration." - Ryan McMaken, Ukraine's Regime is Now Kidnapping Fathers for Military "Service" (Mises.org) Feb. 28th, 2022 BitChute Minds Archive Flote Spotify

A Permanent Solution to Deep State Tyranny

by Keith Knight | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured Articles

The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually beneficial voluntary exchange. These two controlled experiments, where mostly free markets competed against mostly state-controlled economies, have yielded an undeniable result: the more free, the more prosperous. Maybe that was then, and this is now, and things are totally different, which is why we need a big government? Maybe we...

Freedom = Social Cooperation = Superabundance (feat. Marian Tupy)

by Keith Knight | Sep 3, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/L1WIoXexTmw After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. - Superabundance.com Marian L. Tupy is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, coauthor of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting, coauthor of the...

Why Was Trump Never Impeached for Murdering Civilians?

by Keith Knight | Sep 2, 2022 | Blog

The corporate press, along with university professors, Democrats, intelligence agencies, Hollywood elites, blue check Twitter, Regime Libertarians, Regime Republicans, and k-12 school teachers often have no quarrels about saying Trump is evil. Usual reasons include: conspiring with Russia to steal the 2016 election, quid-pro-quoing Ukraine via phone, January 6th, and conspiring with Russia again in 2020 with Hunter Biden's laptop. Why focus on trivial (not to mention fake) nonsense when we have documented evidence that he took part in operations that murdered civilians? Because the...