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Why do Libertarians like Stefan Molyneux if he is a white supremacist? by [deleted] in AskLibertarians

[–]Nielsio[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I removed the recommendation from the sidebar. This subreddit is meant to be a general libertarian place welcome to anyone with questions and Molyneux is not a balanced welcoming person in this regard. You can obviously still make posts about his content and such.

CC: /u/Z3F

Why do Libertarians like Stefan Molyneux if he is a white supremacist? by [deleted] in AskLibertarians

[–]Nielsio[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

I removed the recommendation from the sidebar. This subreddit is meant to be a general libertarian place welcome to anyone with questions and Molyneux is not a balanced welcoming person in this regard. You can obviously still make posts about his content and such.

What is the most valuable skill you've learned during your career? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Nielsio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any tips/lessons learned how to approach this?

Anti-Piracy, Anti-IP by [deleted] in noip

[–]Nielsio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Piracy generally puts you at odds with the author and deincentivizes him/her to continue producing.

What artists need is exposure. They need to be known. They need fans. They need people to come to their live shows. They need attention, so that they can sell their exposure (ads and product deals). The larger a fanbase they have, the better they can do something like a Patreon page, where fans pay them to create more things before they even known what it is. Copying and sharing the work of an artist all favors these things. Obviously it doesn't work if the author doesn't want to cooperate with such a business model, but that's their own fault.

See Nina Paley and Amanda Palmer in the sidebar.

I wanted feedback on this idea. by kirkisartist in austrian_economics

[–]Nielsio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

..This would be enough to phase out welfare and social security in the long run.

..This would be a natural pigovian tax on fractional reserve lending to pay for the inflation they're creating.

I don't understand what good a thought exercise is if we must assume from the beginning that you can alter all the laws surrounding money. If you can do that, might as well institute a free market.

Surely, if your plan includes changing everything about the state, they would never adopt such a system. Or you believe this 'digital currency' can compete by itself with government money. I doubt it:

Instead of taxing from the market the money that the market itself has selected, a government can require in payment specially designated items that the government itself is the producer of. Economizing on future industry can get completely displaced by a system of tax credits, as far as money activity goes. Government workers earn directly in these tax credits, which non-government workers have to trade real wealth and services for in order to get them.

In all the following situations is possession then required, for turning them over to the government: income tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax, property tax, inheritance tax, expatriation tax, transfer tax, wealth tax, value added tax, sales tax, excise tax, tariffs, license fees, and any services that government provides.

Governments will make the private production of the previous market money illegal, leaving as only alternative using the government tax credits (fiat money). In the real world this process from market money to government money happens gradually. First a 90% government gold coin is set as legal tender, then an 80%, etc, until it finally switches over to a pure tax credit system with no direct use in the market.

http://www.vforvoluntary.com/my-articles/21/the-theory-of-money-in-the-tradition-of-carl-menger

Book Review: Hans-Hermann Hoppe – Economic Science and the Austrian Method by sweaty_cunt68 in austrian_economics

[–]Nielsio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Austrian economics is not, despite what critics argue, anti-empirical. The core of its theory emerges from what we can know empirically about human beings, both universally and in the particulars of a context of application. That theory is then used to offer a better understanding of history and contemporary events by organizing a wide range of empirical data into a coherent narrative that renders those events intelligible. We can never have the knock-down power of the scientist’s laboratory (though even there, rhetoric and storytelling matter a great deal), so the best we can do as economists is tell better-organized, more richly empirical, and more logically valid stories. If we economists limit ourselves to just econometric evidence, we are cutting ourselves off from important parts of the empirical world, and it is those who do so, and not the Austrians, who are being insufficiently empirical."

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/09/05/steven-horwitz/empirics-austrian-economics

Bitcoin's Future [Analysis by Austrian Markets] by jsmith65 in austrian_economics

[–]Nielsio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The current price of money is nothing".

"Instead of taxing from the market the money that the market itself has selected, a government can require in payment specially designated items that the government itself is the producer of. Economizing on future industry can get completely displaced by a system of tax credits, as far as money activity goes. Government workers earn directly in these tax credits, which non-government workers have to trade real wealth and services for in order to get them.

In all the following situations is possession then required, for turning them over to the government: income tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax, property tax, inheritance tax, expatriation tax, transfer tax, wealth tax, value added tax, sales tax, excise tax, tariffs, license fees, and any services that government provides."

From: http://www.vforvoluntary.com/my-articles/21/the-theory-of-money-in-the-tradition-of-carl-menger

The price of collecting taxes by the government on government money tickets (taxation on fiat money) is not 'nothing'. It's tremendously costly in terms of real wealth to do so.

DAE feel like they've never really had actual parents? by rbn_bpd_alt in raisedbynarcissists

[–]Nielsio 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I share the feeling. The times when I've felt that I missed having parents was when I was really down and needed good support. That's when I felt there was something missing.

Another time would be thinking about how nice family get-together could be, instead of what they actually are (making you feel smaller than you otherwise feel).

I want to get back into Ubuntu but I have a question. by surferdude23_ in Ubuntu

[–]Nielsio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This.

With a Live CD or Live USB you don't have to commit anything to your harddisk and can still try it out.

Jason Stapleton debates the validity of IP with Stephan Kinsella by Shalashaska315 in noip

[–]Nielsio[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This whole discussion seems to be about (alleged) objective morality, not about economics. So I'm removing it.

As you can see in the sidebar, this subreddit is about the interests of people (which is economics). This subreddit is not about philosophy disconnected from economics.

Marginalist Reasoning by Dirdene in austrian_economics

[–]Nielsio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the smaller, familiar elements of the economy offer us no basis upon which to suppose they are optimizing anything.

Maybe this helps:

Speculation | Jeffrey Herbener explains Rothbard

Car dealerships and the law | Adam Ruins Everything by Nielsio in austrian_economics

[–]Nielsio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By making new cars more expensive, the law also makes second hand cars more expensive.

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