libertarianism
Escaping politics rather than winning it, and whether there is anywhere left to escape to.
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Dan Ariely quoted
Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B
Their wordsSmall decision? Reversible? Easy to learn from? Both sides equally informed? Then leave people alone — that is exactly the territory where freedom to make our own mistakes is how we learn, and where paternalism has no business.
↗When Is It OK to Decide for Other People?danariely.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com
Their wordsIndeed, the abrogation of exit rights essentially makes you a slave.
↗Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore?balajis.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Jamie Brandon quoted
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes…
Their wordsLibertarians always want to let industries regulate themselves, arguing that if they do harmful things then the market will respond. But the market will only notice immediate, severe harm.
↗0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsthey should be able to install whatever software they should so choose
↗We need a Right To Computeworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 14 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsif service companies are pushed to vet all customers for political beliefs, the day may soon come where service is denied them because of their views
↗May Shopify's immunity spread to the whole herdworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThat forcing vaccines upon truckers needing to cross the border for work is a gross overreach of state power, and utterly unwarranted by the state of the pandemic
- 13 years earlier
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Peter Thiel quoted
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir
Their wordsIn our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”
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Peter Thiel quoted
Their wordsBecause there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I have focused my efforts on new technologies that may create a new space for freedom.
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Christopher Alexander quoted
Architect and design theorist (1936 to 2022)
Their wordsMetropolitan regions will not come to balance until each one is small and autonomous enough to be an independent sphere of culture.
↗A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977; with 5 co-authors)books.google.com All 9 from this book
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Milton Friedman quoted
American economist (1912 to 2006) and 1976 Nobel laureate…
Our readingTo a free person, the country is the individuals who compose it, not something above them
Their wordsTo the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.
↗Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2002 edition)books.google.com All 20 from this book
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Milton Friedman quoted
Our readingA free person asks neither what the country can do for them nor what they can do for the country
Their wordsfree man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
↗Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2002 edition)books.google.com All 20 from this book
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Milton Friedman quoted
Their wordsPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.
↗Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2002 edition)books.google.com All 20 from this book
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Friedrich Hayek quoted
Austrian-British economist and political philosopher (1899…
Their wordsWhat our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
↗The Road to Serfdom (Routledge, 2001 edition)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Friedrich Hayek quoted
Their wordsIt is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.
↗The Road to Serfdom (Routledge, 2001 edition)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Friedrich Hayek quoted
Their wordsThe guiding principle, that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy, remains as true to-day as it was in the nineteenth century.
↗The Road to Serfdom (Routledge, 2001 edition)books.google.com All 23 from this book
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Mary Wollstonecraft quoted
English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797)
Their wordsThe only security of property that nature authorizes and reason sanctions is, the right a man has to enjoy the acquisitions which his talents and industry have acquired; and to bequeath them to whom he chooses.
↗A Vindication of the Rights of Men (2nd ed., 1790)en.wikisource.org All 5 from this book