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  1. Nielsio

    Against Owning Information

    (Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVusj2a0pzg ) People say: "You can't copy someone else's idea. That's stealing." ..I want to evaluate that statement. Stealing means you are taking away something from someone, so that they no longer have it. So copying is not theft of any personal...
  2. Nielsio

    How Could A Voluntary Society Function? (full explanation)

    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9dZATrFak Text: 1. Introduction We start with the premise that the widely shared beliefs in a society are: 1 ) Don't harm other people 2 ) Respect their property 3 ) That part of nature that you transform and make valuable becomes yours 4 ) A...
  3. Nielsio

    Minimum wage helps poor people?

    I'll respond if someone engages with the arguments in the OP.
  4. Nielsio

    Minimum wage helps poor people?

    Claim: “It is exploitation to pay workers less than a certain amount of hourly wage. Raising their wages by law is fair and helps these workers.” Analysis: A firm calculates how much extra profit it makes with each individual worker. If a potential worker can add to the firm's overall...
  5. Nielsio

    War is good for the economy?

    Claim: “War is good for the economy because it provides jobs and it generates technology.” Analysis: § Jobs The purpose of an economy is providing for the satisfaction of consumers. This means a job is only valuable insofar it improves on the value of resources, as judged...
  6. Nielsio

    Money, What Is It? (video)

    This is the essence of trade: you trade one valuable thing for another valuable. As explained in the video, if people are free in barter they choose to trade in those things that work best for indirect exchange. This means the market itself chooses what actually works. So it's kind of weird to...
  7. Nielsio

    Money, What Is It? (video)

    Why? The most adaptable to what? How do you manipulate a commodity currency?
  8. Nielsio

    Money, What Is It? (video)

    How can a commodity currency 'fail'? I don't think that was claimed. Do you agree that a free market commodity money makes it harder for reckless spending (and thus savings destruction) to occur? Can you give a specific example? Because I don't believe those were cases of free market...
  9. Nielsio

    Money, What Is It? (video)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gizetn5VuA0 I made this video. What do you guys think of it?
  10. Nielsio

    I'm sick of the stupid stimulus...

    An example of those 'friends':
  11. Nielsio

    I'm sick of the stupid stimulus...

    Only the market can decide what are real jobs, i.e. which are sustainable. As long as you have a special group who can tax people and give the money to other people, they will do so, and they will find they have more friends than they ever imagined.
  12. Nielsio

    Another bailout... this time $23 billion for public schools

    Soon public school will have become completely redundant. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Libera.../dp/0962959170
  13. Nielsio

    Calls for the Pope to be put on trial.

    There is only one thing the church is good at, and that's instilling guilt among the people. Guilt cannot possibly be the source of a healthy society.
  14. Nielsio

    Calls for the Pope to be put on trial.

    Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k (Louis CK is a comedian; you are forewarned)
  15. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    Right. The way to satisfy the requirement for a jury is rather simple and straightforward: You like to create a contract with, say, a customer. So you write up a contract and both agree on an independent judge who will be hired for his service. So judges actually respond to market...
  16. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    That's a false dichotomy. There are other options besides monarchy and democracy. Just because you perceive a democracy to be better than a monarchy doesn't mean a democracy is justified. You cannot have a right TO something. You can only have a right FROM something; the right from being...
  17. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    You're just asserting it; you're not giving a reason. I could just as well say that by being born on earth you owe me half of your income because of the social contract you automatically enter.
  18. Nielsio

    Obama Tax Cuts~VS~Bush Tax Cuts

    You're telling me the state can't write laws giving itself more power by telling me they need to have a meeting in order to give themselves more power? :\ No piece of paper or procedure negates the fact that they shouldn't be able to exercise powers that individuals never gave to them. Bill...
  19. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    You ARE living under fear of the biggest gang with the biggest guns and pretty much being told what to do by brute force. The state has simply created the illusion that it is the source of order. But it's only the source of orderly slavery, not of the order of spontaneous markets based on...
  20. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    Democracy is slavery. The alternative to slavery is not some other form of slavery. If you have to work 5 months of every year just to pay taxes then this is a form of service.
  21. Nielsio

    Obama Tax Cuts~VS~Bush Tax Cuts

    The power the government has now comes most fundamentally from (hundreds of) millions of people giving it a moral sanction. If you're asking where power should come from, then I'd say it should come from the basic ways of acquiring property: homesteading, trading, gifting, contracting. All...
  22. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    I'd rather not partake in anything state-related and stay as far away from them as I can.
  23. Nielsio

    Obama Tax Cuts~VS~Bush Tax Cuts

    This begs the question though. It's pretty obvious that the government can write laws granting itself endless power. The question is whether that power is legitimate or not.
  24. Nielsio

    Jury Duty

    Given that the people who are being forced to do these things didn't agree to it beforehand I would have to say a violation of freedom. Forcing people to do things they didn't sign up for assumes that the one doing the forcing owns those people. Now some may say that you choose to live on this...
  25. Nielsio

    Obama Tax Cuts~VS~Bush Tax Cuts

    Tax cuts don't do much when government spending is at an all-time high and it's funded through inflation and borrowing. This means you are paying for it through higher prices and those debts are going to be taxed one way or another in the future. Another thing to consider is that bailouts and...
  26. Nielsio

    John Stossel: Why I am a libertarian

    How do you establish cause and effect in your historical analysis?
  27. Nielsio

    How old are you? Vote!

    Baller.