Ep. 860 Skeptics of Capitalism, and How to Persuade Them
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today I talk to libertarian writer Antony Sammeroff of the Scottish Liberty Podcast, who recently gave a talk against the "basic income guarantee" idea to a crowd that liked the idea, and at the end was cheered. So we discuss capitalism, persuading opponents, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 860. |
| 0:03.0 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:26.2 | Get all the details at Tom Woods.com slash praxis. Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking today to |
| 0:33.7 | Anthony Samaroff, who is a libertarian writer in Scotland. |
| 0:38.1 | He co-hosts the Scottish Liberty Podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | He's a member of the Scottish Libertarian Party. |
| 0:43.6 | He gave a talk, I think I mentioned this on yesterday's episode, |
| 0:48.4 | in front of a group of people who supported, presumably, the basic income guarantee idea. And by the time he was done with this talk, |
| 0:56.5 | they were cheering for him. So I thought, I've got to talk to this guy. How's that possible? |
| 1:00.6 | So we'll probably talk a little bit about how to persuade people of things and then some |
| 1:04.2 | substantive questions about the market economy and tricky questions for libertarians to answer. |
| 1:12.0 | Anthony, welcome to the show. |
| 1:17.2 | Hi, thanks for having me on. Really excited to get to speak to you. It's been great having you in the private Facebook group, which is now a secret Facebook group, which is even a higher level. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now there isn't even a link to it. You have to be my friend and then I put you in. |
| 1:30.9 | It's because I kept getting all these spam requests from people to join the group. |
| 1:33.1 | People who obviously have never even heard of the show. |
| 1:33.5 | Right. And they're just, so I said, that is it. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm done doing that. |
| 1:36.8 | Anyway, I've been glad to have you in there because among other things, I've gotten to know what you've been working on. I want to start off by talking about this YouTube video |
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