When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
78 billion light years
Interesting that this starts happening when government is in danger of going bankrupt for the first time in 400 years or so.
Richard Maybury's Early Warning Report January 19
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The two things everything can agree on:
- Do all you have agreed to do. This is the basis of contract law.
- Do not encroach on other persons or their property. This is the basis of tort law and some criminal law.
When humans organize themselves according to these two rules, they prosper.
Learn more by reading Richard Maybury’s Whatever Happened to Justice? (An Uncle Eric Book)
Hans Hoppe Talk Newport Beach 1997 January 19
Hans Hoppe-What Must Be Done – Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Newport Beach, California; January 24-25, 1997. [1:15:58] How to start a grass-roots revolt by first liberating many small towns and villages from their local governments using the existing democratic apparatus, then refusing as independent towns to cooperate with state and federal force.