Modern Educayshun

Modern Educayshun

O Papa anticapitalista

Vaticanomics: Serving the “God” of the State por Thomas DiLorenzo:

By so relentlessly promoting the greater politicization of society the Vatican is promoting more sin, and more unethical behavior, while castigating the far more peaceful and ethical system of voluntary trade and exchange and the international division of labor with economically-illiterate and fact-less arguments.

Rock & Roll Saved Free Speech

The Time Rock & Roll Saved Free Speech

O Papa anticapitalista

The Many Ways the Pope Is Wrong About Capitalism:

However well-meaning Pope Francis may be, he has failed to understand how a free economy works. Economics is a science, and to ignore economic law is futile. As Mises trenchantly observes, “it is futile to approach social facts with the attitude of a censor who approves or disapproves from the point of view of quite arbitrary standards and subjective judgments of value. One must study the laws of human action and social cooperation as he physicist studies the law of nature.”

Game of Theories: The Austrians

Game of Theories: The Austrians

Jovem liberal e descomplexado

Todos os anos marcham pela Avenida da Liberdade aqueles (ou os herdeiros ideológicos daqueles) que lutaram contra a ditadura - mas não a favor da democracia, e muito menos pela liberdade. Em cada slogan, um apelo ao colectivismo. Se levassem a sua avante, Portugal seria mais pobre. A "liberdade" desta gente não é a de gente livre. Mas esperam-se sorrisos embevecidos e declarações para arrancar aplausos.

Jovem liberal e descomplexado

Alt-Libertarianism

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right” (PFS 2017)

Consent of the Governed, Revisited

Consent of the Governed, Revisited:

For the record, I can state in complete candor that I do not approve of the manner in which I am being treated by the liars, thieves, and murderers who style themselves the Government of the United States of America or by those who constitute the tyrannical pyramid of state, local, and hybrid governments with which this country is massively infested. My sincere wish is that all of these individuals would, for once in their lives, do the honorable thing. In this regard, I suggest that they resign their positions immediately and seek honest employment.

Socialismo = Miséria

Socialism is for suckers: Venezuela

Politics in One Page

Politics in One Page por Jeffrey A. Tucker:

• Lesson 1: Your Vote Cannot Change the Election Outcome
  
• Lesson 2: You Are Voting for People, Not Policies
  
• Lesson 3: These People Are Not Actually the Government
  
• Lesson 4: These Are Not the Only Options
  
• Lesson 5: Social Change Happens Outside of Government

Lyin' Lincoln

Could have compromise avoided the Civil War?

Libertarian Paternalism is Socialism

"Libertarian Paternalism is Plain Oxymoron" por Pedro Videla (sem link):

.. on closer look, the concept of "libertarian paternalism" looks like an oxymoron for three reasons:

First, libertarians believe that adults should be allowed to pursue their own interests, unless their behaviour hurts other. They do so because they assume that individuals know their own interests better than bureaucrats, authorities, the elite, or anyone else.

Second, libertarians believe that adults should be allowed to pursue their interests, unless their behavior hurts others. They do so because they assume that individuals know their own interests better than bureaucrats, authorities, the elite, or anyone else.

Second, libertarians do not assume that individuals never make mistakes, always know their interests, or even are always able to act on their interests when they know them. Rather, they stress that individuals have the right to make their own mistakes because it leads to a more autonomous and competent individual.

Third, libertarians emphasize that even the best-intentioned member of the educated elite may be subject to the same irrational traits and cognitive limitations that are supposed to affect choices of ordinary people. Remember that these problems are not a function of low IQ or a poor education; they are universal.

To summarize, libertarian paternalism should be considered just a nice intellectual exercise.

If the elite want new reasons to implement policies that control choices - such as how much fat people are allowed to consume, whether adults are allowed to smoke, or how much they have to save - it must be called what it is: a nanny state that drains freedom and kills individual responsibility.