Transcript State-Run Health Care As Collectivization Of Everyday Life

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Laissez-faire versus the State:
Civilization or Dark Ages
Jan Krepelka
ISIL conference
Lausanne, Switzerland
August 22, 2013
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Introduction: Why don't you like the State?
• Why don't I like the State?
• Why does it matter?
• What to do about it?
Answer: emphasize the difference between Laissez-faire
and the State as the fundamental opposition between
Civilization and Dark Ages
- Our society is partly civilized and partly Dark Ages
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1. Laissez-faire versus the State: Civilization or Dark Ages
1. 1. Dark Ages classes vs laissez-faire equality
1. 2. Dark Ages feudalism vs laissez-faire freedom
1. 3. Dark Ages barbarism vs laissez-faire civilization
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1. 1. Dark Ages classes vs laissez-faire equality
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People above the law: nobility
Clerical class
Military class
Monarchies: how does one become a king?
But all power belongs to dark ages
Actions done by the state vs private citizens
Laissez-faire equality
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1. 2. Dark Ages feudalism vs laissez-faire freedom
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Feudal model: attached to the land
Emigration, immigration
Free human being: choice, travel, globalization
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1. 3. Dark Ages barbarism vs laissez-faire civilization
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Economic vs political means, civilization vs violence
The only political question: use of violence
Laissez-faire: violence limited by NAP
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2. Why it matters so much: growth
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Civilization, economic growth
 The division of labor;
 A practical means of exchange: money;
 The accumulation of capital
Declining GDP
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Growth
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More production, more wealth
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Longer, healhier, lives
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Technological progress
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Huge impact over long term (compound interest)
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Www.confoederatio.ch : growth rate calculator
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A country with 2% growth rate is going to be 20 000
wealthier than a country with a 1% growth rate, over a
mere 1000 years
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Life and death issue (besides millions of people
murdered by States)
Space exploration
Life extension, immortality
Against the interests of the State, against its ideology
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3. What do you do about it? Reframe
Make it easy to pick sides.
3. 1. Set your reality: Civilization vs Dark Ages
3. 2. The burden of proof rests on them, not us
3. 3. Stick to the essentials: violence?
3. 4. Drop the labels
3. 5. Mean it
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“You libertarians are the types that would allow fornication
in public parks!”
- What do you mean, public parks?”
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Conclusion: Reclaim your reality, reclaim your life
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The growth of the State cannot go on
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Recognize the state as a Dark Ages institution
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Trust your libertarian intuition
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Live according to your principles
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Be an entrepreneur of liberty
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Never mind the looters and their laws
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Live in your reality, not theirs
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Thank you!
Jan Krepelka
[email protected]
http://laissez-faire.ch/