The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was. She is immortalized because of the little things that she wrote, not because of any great deeds recorded by others. As a victim of tyranny she is remembered as an innocent murdered. She is a story found inside the numbers. Thanks to her diary, we have a human figure to know and mourn, despite the mechanized bureaucratic...
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Imperialism Made the West Rich – DEBUNKED
https://youtu.be/COc7hvB8TpE ...nations are made up of different people with different levels of power and different interests. The benefits of the empire-building were concentrated among the politically well-connected few, such as weapons makers, certain monopoly trade companies, the military, and the kings and queens. The costs—which exceeded the benefits—were in turn passed onto and spread among the helpless, hapless many, among the taxpayers forced to pay for the wars, the conscripts forced to fight and die, and the consumers forced to pay what were in many cases artificially high...
Hotep Jesus
Hotep Jesus joined me to chat about the future of liberty and technology as well as his upcoming book (Kinda). Bryan Sharpe CoinBits Kron Hotep Been Told Yo 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course...
Arguing About Poverty, Sweatshops, Exploitation, and Price Gouging. Matt Zwolinski & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/uMLA1uLwIDo ... the natural lot of mankind, at least since our expulsion from Eden, is mass starvation — starvation that can only be overcome by steady hard work, by productive capital investment, and by creating the conditions and social institutions guaranteeing private property free of depredation. Murray N. Rothbard Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 192 Matt Zwolinski is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, founder and director of USD’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, and director of USD’s undergraduate program in Philosophy,...
The Moral and Economic Case for Free Markets. Art Carden and Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/0qS7EhhDWFA “... there are two and only two ways of attaining wealth in society: (a) by production and voluntary exchange with others — the method of the free market; and (b) by violent expropriation of the wealth produced by others. The latter is the method of violence and theft. The former benefits all parties involved; the latter parasitically benefits the looting group or class at the expense of the looted.” Murray N. Rothbard Ethics of Liberty, pp. 166–67 Art Carden is a professor of economics at the Brock School of Business at Samford University....
Open: The Story of Human Progress. Johan Norberg and Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/yrNRQG8Kjic HERE’S THE DIFFERENCE: IN CAPITALISM, PEOPLE HAVE RISKED THEIR LIVES TO SAVE THEIR DOGS; IN SOCIALISM, PEOPLE KILL THEIR DOGS TO SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES ... THAT’S WHY PEOPLE RISK THEIR LIVES TO MIGRATE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND THAT’S WHY PEOPLE RISKED THEIR LIVES TO MIGRATE FROM VENEZUELA, NORTH KOREA AND CUBA.” -Johan Norberg, author of Open: The Story of Human Progress Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. and the European Centre for...
California Govt Shuts Off Power in Middle of Heat Wave
As Jacob Hornberger says, only the government complains about having too many customers. In the most modern province of the most wealthy and powerful nation in the world, they can't even keep the f#%^&ng lights on and AC running in the summertime. What a disgrace.
Year Zero 87: The Homeless Crisis
In this episode Tommy compares the homeless population of California, one of the wealthiest states in the US, to homelessness in the poorest state. The conclusion is simple to come to that homelessness is a result of too much government, not too little. Listen to Year Zero
The Bureaucratic Revolution
On the Human Action podcast, Jeff Deist interviews William L. Anderson about the Ludwig von Mises classic Bureaucracy. Update: Mises is killing it today. Also check out this great article, "3 Ways to Help Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap," by Jordan Setayesh.
Foreign Policy Focus #144 – The War on Us
On FPF #144, I discuss the war's cost on Americans. 1,000s of Americans have been killed overseas. Many veterans suffer from lasting physical, psychological, and moral injuries from the war. The war has cost every American freedom. The cultural decay created by the war has led to mass fear of immigrants by Americans. The wars have also cost Americans trillions of dollars of wealth.