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65 sats \ 24 replies \ @Undisciplined 20h \ on: The socialist housing plan for New York City econ
I'd want some sort of legal guarantee that they can't just re-regulate those private properties, too.
In principle, though, I'm fine with compromises that involve increasing the maximum level of private property rights.
I want to make minarchism a popular term. I think it could catch on, since obviously capitalism (the word) isn't working for young people.
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I fear our descendants will have to learn the hard way about how amazing capitalism actually is by losing it.
Its weird how something responsible for so much good can be denegrated when government education and entertainment demonize it for 50+ years.
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My hope is that we can learn the lesson vicariously by watching Europe go over the cliff.
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Hasn't worked yet. We saw the USSR.
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I think Europe is pretty entrenched in our minds as a peer culture. It might seem less like it's happening to some alien culture.
What are they?
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The short version. The victors (US) didn't believe that socialism was the primary reason the Soviet Union failed. They believe it was the USA. They don't actually believe socialism is completely rotten.
I say this because I have seen very little actual mainstream discussion of the failures of socialism. It was mostly about the US spending them into the ground. Not the failures of central planning. Many in government are socialists they just don't admit it.
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They did spend a decent amount of time focusing on some of the incentive issues in socialism: i.e. "Who will take out the trash?" or "Why work harder if you don't get paid more?".
Those are worth noting, but they miss the fundamental problem of central planning.
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If NYC collapses they'll just find something else to blame
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Obviously they'll blame all the greedy capitalists who live there.
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Yeah... I do think you are right.
Its quite interesting to watch this character in NYC and how he obviously a demagogue telling people what they want to hear. Its a tough situation that was created by the very same ideas that this guy is pushing.
There's a fundamental flaw in humans in that we have a really hard time putting ourselves in the shoes of others. My dad never had wealth. He was born poor. Literally a cabin at home. His family was the poorest in the small town in Oklahoma. He never finished High School. But he worked hard and taught me to work and one thing he said to me that has stuck with me was that "you don't have to be rich to be greedy". He said, "Some of the greediest people I have ever met were poor".
We all want more for less. Its not just the business man. I want to be paid more. My boss wants to increase profits. We are all competing. We are all greedy to some extent. I'm not a Randian. I don't think greed is good. But I do think it is in every man.
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It's been around for a long time. I think it's easier to sell young people on libertarianism, in general.
The first principles approach resonates best before people have formed a bunch of ad hoc rationalizations for all the government interventions.
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I think the libertarian party has been around for too long in the US and thus the word libertarian has lots its power. Something new and edgy (especially the connection to "anarchism") may be attractive to some disaffected youth who'd otherwise look for solutions in communism
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Then don't pussyfoot around it. Just push real private property anarchism on the youth.
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too scary for the normies
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The youth you should target will be ok with something provocative.
Normies are a waste of time. They'll just follow along once the people who matter are convinced.
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