The Tom Woods Show, episode 950.

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Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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out my coupon page, libertyclassroom.com slash coupons. Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. Justin Wynn

is with me, and I'm going to let him do most of the

talking, because he's going to be talking about a project of his that is going to go beyond

just theorizing about libertarianism, but actually will involve the production of a service that we

normally associate with the state and show how it can be done better and more efficiently and productively by the private sector. So this is the sort of thing people need to see more of to help expand their imaginations. We can lecture them all day long about how the private sector would do A, B, and C, but most people need to see

with their physical eye rather than with their mind's eye, and that's what Justin here is

aiming to do. Justin, welcome to the show. Thank you. Let's talk about your project, and first,

let's set the stage for it.

You are in effect, you're suggesting that libertarians have done really well in theorizing about how different things might work in a free society, but maybe it's time, in addition to the theorizing, to actually get out there and do something, to actually show people how a viable non-state approach to certain problems might be accomplished. So I think I'm correctly

describing the theoretical motivation here. And you've also cited the great example of the

heroic Lysander Spooner as an inspiration

for what you're doing. So let's start there. We know about Spooner and some of his writings,

but what is it that he did in his life practically, a particular example that involved

competition with the state? Sure. So the way that I see libertarianism going forward,

we have a big problem with imagination. A lot of people who aren't libertarians have trouble

envisioning a world where the state doesn't provide the solutions that we say that it doesn't have to.

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