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You didn’t justify taxation. Deal? With which official did you make a deal with on the date of your birth? I have changed services, changed corporatio...

You are wrong because I’ve criticized the ethics of state intervention, questioning how passively paying a tax or promoting this or that government se...

Your reasoning and snark have not convinced me that workers should “get a say” in a venture that is not theirs, nor that this relationship is anything...

Corporations are not governments, though. If a group of people start a corporation it makes no sense to me that others, by virtue of them accepting a ...

Perhaps my ignorance is a result of my experience and tastes. I have had no relationship with a corporation that was not voluntary and premised on mut...

Will you compile all the accidents that occur on state-built roads and shift the blame accordingly? You monster!

First it’s The Wealthy, then corporations, now it’s multinational corporations. Now it’s IKEA, Johnny Walker, and Starbucks who are our overlords.

Sounds like a terrible dystopia, but no doubt the vision of our technocrats. My guess is they’ll destroy everything in an effort to save everything. A...

Where’s the state there?

You’d compare a list of workplace accidents to genocide, war, and empire.

If corporations are so powerful then you ought to start one, at least to fight back. You can start one by filing articles of incorporation with your s...

There is no mechanism or force in the principle of laissez-faire that prohibits justice, though, nor does it entail “anything goes”. I just happen to ...

You don’t know what I understand, but assert it anyways. You are not just.

Suppose that there are two means with which man can satisfy his needs. One is the application of labor and voluntary exchange; the other is the approp...

I’ve defined it as the organization of the means of appropriation of the labor of others, basically a system of exploitation. It’s known as the so-cal...

Sit and spin. You have nothing.

Sorry, states authorize corporations. I appreciate the quibbling.

We can compare our naivety. If I’m so naive on the topic it should be easy for you to name a wealthy person who has committed murder and violence “jus...

Sorry, I’m not going to pretend the State is a one-to-one ratio with a single socio-economic class, especially one so amorphous, fuzzy and stereotypic...

States create and control corporations. Corporations, like you and I, are considered legal entities, largely subject to the same state laws. Corporati...

I disagree only slightly. Multi-national organizations are certainly growing in wealth, many of them having a GDP greater than many nation states. But...

Thanks for the honesty. Protection rackets aren’t known for their voluntary association. But the underlying practice is extortion, which is exactly ho...

The idea that someone owns the state and has the monopoly on violence as soon as he hits a certain net-worth isn’t worth thinking about. Not even Mose...

It should be brushed aside. What matters in this context is the constitution and precedent, and how well our supreme jurists can stretch the plain mea...

Because?

Obviously? Then it should be easy to say how this is the case.

The wealthy don’t posses the monopoly on violence. The state does. The state, not the wealthy, can murder you in the street with impunity, throw you i...

I wouldn’t propose to restrict anything. It would be interesting to see what would happen in no one voted, though. Maybe we should start a “Don’t Vote...

I'm with you on that. To destroy it or walk away from it would be cruel. The only way such a state could be achieved, I think, is if people simply sto...

I'm nervous and tense about statism, which is both left and right. It's no strange wonder that Roosevelt praised Mussolini, and Mussolini praised the ...

I don’t think people are fundamentally moral, only that they have the capacity for it. I believe the moral conscience is latent in everyone, just not ...

I get a similar feeling about statists. Since there are ways to care for others that do not involve state authority, I lean to the belief that those w...

I don’t prefer economic over civil liberties. In fact I think the proper role of government is to protect human rights and civil liberties. I just don...

The state isn’t the only agent acting in any economy. There are black markets that actively work to avoid state interference and involvement, for inst...

The argument made no sense. There is no economy without government therefor laissez-faire is nonsense. Not a strand of bubble gum can connect the prem...

It does, and it does so poorly and unjustly. So maybe it shouldn't.

I was using the phrase “separation of economy and state” to describe the fundamental principle, much like the separation of powers and the separation ...

My theory of the state and state formation is the so-called conquest theory of state formation, as written by Franz Oppenheimer. In his formulation th...

I would think so.

I’m pretty sure you can enforce your own behavior, as can most adults. If you need an official caste of moral busybodies to govern how you treat and c...

My reasons for preferring it are moral. I think it is wrong and unjust to control people, to confiscate the fruits of their labor, or to impose someon...

Sure, “the economy” isn’t a useful term or idea, and we can quibble about it forever. But the usefulness of the term doesn’t automatically justify reg...

Well, no, protecting human rights is not “regulated capitalism”. Preserving human liberty is not a 1-to-1 ratio with regulating the economy, and it is...

Yes, and probably courts.

I just don’t think you have a right to interfere in the movement of others. And no, I don’t think a company has any right to pour poison in a river.

The hands of a man who has never worked a day in his life with the fingernails of Karl Marx.

Fake communists like Streetlight would melt if they lived under communist rule.

No. One is not at liberty to interfere with another’s liberty.

I don’t want to abolish democracy, nor do I want to completely abolish the government. I just don’t think the task of government is to meddle in our l...

In my mind the proper role for government is to defend liberty, or to go extinct. The moral and just way to fund any institution is voluntarily, wheth...