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Timestamps-
- Quote from The Problem of Political Authority
- What is ‘political authority’?
- If you do not like the government of a country, you should leave
- Voting for a political representative is morally on par with consent
- “Liberty depends on taxation” - Cass Sunstein
- You benefit from the state, therefore you have an obligation to obey it’s edicts
- What about the poor?
- Does potential wealth inequality justify political authority?
- The major takeaway from the Trump presidency
- Corporations need regulation which justifies a state
Homelessness caused by regulation:
- In the absence of a state, chaos will exist
- The mindset of the unattainable perfection objection “who will do X”
- Huemer’s approach to handling objections to anarchism
- High standards for the market, no standards for the government & incentive structures
- Governments v. HOA’s
- The market commodifies human beings, therefore should be replaced by the state
- Where has anarcho-capitalism worked?
- Why are believers in government so confident in their low information position?
- How has the state created a double standard in the minds of the masses for thousands of years?
- Shame is the health of the state
- Most important thing you learned from Bryan Caplan
- Most important contribution of Jason Brennan