Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Humans Mediate Between Heaven and Earth
00:05:25 Ethical Strategies Outcompete Unethical Strategies
00:06:50 Reason Tells Us to Protect Ourselves From Others’ Unreasonableness
00:09:44 The Cypherpunk Ethos
00:14:19 Strategy for Overcoming Central Banking
00:16:30 Statism: An Ideology of Violating Private Property Rights
00:22:05 Statism is All About Controlling Resources
00:24:14 Liberty: A Stateless State
00:26:24 The State and Psychotechnological Bootstrapping?
00:30:36 NYDIG
00:31:45 Is Statism Transitory?
00:34:23 Human Action Aimed at “Something For Nothing”
00:38:25 Bitcoin and the Realignment of Truth and Power
00:40:49 “The Further a Society Drifts From the Truth…”
00:43:52 Bitcoin Combines “Carrots and Sticks”
00:46:29 Bitcoin as a Forcing Function for Fixing The World
00:50:20 Bitcoin: Rothbardian Ethics in a Strategic Implementation
00:52:45 “Read Rothbard and Use Bitcoin”
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