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40 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Apr \ on: How Economic Competition, etc., and Civilization Emerge from Private Property econ
I’d love for Hoppe’s insights to catch on more broadly.
Private property rights are the only coherent legal framework consistent with peaceful conflict resolution.
Private property rights are the only coherent legal framework consistent with peaceful conflict resolution.
With that sort of resolution, I don't think many states would be interested in enforcing private property rights. The states are there to hoover up all the private property that they can get their greedy hands on to put into their pockets. The only way Hoppe's theories could be applied is through popular action of the people.
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I agree. They’ll probably get enacted in some sort of fringe covenant community first, like a seastead or liberland.
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They might even get enacted in someplace like El Salvador or Argentina, if the current state leaders keep to their philosophies.
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Maybe partially, but you were right about no state ever allowing it.
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Sure, it would get in the way of their rapacious looting of the common people. I think Bastiat had it right in his writings.
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