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🗓️ 12 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Stephen Moline from Freedom, so I asked for questions and questions I got. |
0:06.2 | This is from Facebook. Of course, I appreciate everyone's fantastic questions. |
0:12.3 | There really aren't bad questions. Hopefully there also won't be bad answers. |
0:16.0 | So somebody wrote, do you think that a politician, say the president of a country, could help to foster a transition to a stateless society? |
0:24.6 | Well, of course, Javier Milley is the Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist. |
0:28.6 | I would argue that at its most absolute center, the Republicans tend to be minarchists who have to contend with |
0:40.3 | the society where people have made bad decisions based upon the forced redistribution of wealth. |
0:45.6 | So it's been tried, right? It's been tried. |
0:50.1 | America was the greatest experiment in the tiniest government known to man. |
0:55.0 | And it took arguably, well, I mean, the whiskey rebellion happened right away, |
1:01.0 | or fairly soon after George Washington rode down farmers for not wanting to pay a whiskey tax. |
1:06.0 | It took about 80 years maybe for the American government to break the bonds of the Constitution, paper doesn't |
1:13.3 | tend to stop bullets. And so the experiment of the smallest government in human history has now |
1:19.9 | become one of the largest governments, or if you count national debt, the biggest government |
1:24.1 | and unfunded liability is the biggest government in human history. |
1:35.5 | I think that politicians can reverse things, but people forget, right? |
1:36.2 | There's this cycle. |
1:42.8 | Freedom begets wealth, wealth begets inequality, and because of radical egalitarianism, |
2:02.0 | younger sibling fetishes and obsessions, we want to close the gap of inequality, which means destroying freedom, which means causing poverty, and then people get sick of that. So they try to get more freedom, which increases the inequality. We just, because people don't talk about sort of the basics of how this kind of stuff works. So certainly politicians can make a difference. |
2:05.2 | Malé certainly is making a difference, |
2:07.0 | although I'm not such a big fan of the scanning society minority report stuff, |
2:11.9 | but the guy in El Salvador has made El Salvador very safe |
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