But us voting on the forum and claiming that only 1% of bitcoins are used for "unethical" uses doesn't make it true.  I simply wish people would stop worrying about what other people are using bitcoins for.  After all, every currency in the world is used for "bad things" too.

Pretend internet money?  Why are you on this forum?  GTFO.

Well, I just tried again, copy and pasting the address from your signature.  It's a small donation because I can't afford much, but hopefully it will help reward you for your time and labor in creating the app.  Let me know if you get it.

I just read the synopsis: looks REALLY interesting.  I'll have to check it out at some point.

Could you not have voluntary communism without a State?

It is true that the ultimate aim of people applying economic means vary wildly, but that is no fault of economics.  Economics simply describes the best way to achieve an end, without any subjective valuation of those ends.  If you want to achieve low unemployment and high salaries for workers there are better and worse ways to do this, and economics can illuminate those means.  If you want to create a rich merchant class and keep the masses in poverty there are better and worse ways to achieve this as well, and economics similarly can describe how to do so.  When we argue economics we tend to generally assume that we are aiming at the same goals: the betterment of human society, but again economics does not care about subjective human valuations.

Economics is a subset of praxeology, the general science of human action and therefore is independent from politics, morality and law.  There are some mathematics in it to be sure, and there is economic history, and being the science of human action it undoubtedly affects politics, morality and law, but as a discipline it is separate and cannot be conflated with any of those other subjects. 

However, if you want to move this discussion elsewhere I would be willing as I don't want to derail your thread.  This response is probably not quite what you were looking for?

Ah, thank you.  So you are concerned that in an anarcho-capitalist society there would be nothing to prevent a powerful, malevolent hierarchical organization from assigning itself power and taking over.  This is a valid concern.  Let me ask you a question before I attempt to respond:  What stops a government (even a democratic or constitutional republic) from becoming a dictatorial and draconian nightmere oppressing and enslaving its populace?

The problem with supporting the minimum wage is that the situation looks increasingly more and more like slavery.  As the race to the bottom prevails, as we regulate markets (and therefore people), below subsistence level jobs will be erased and we will create unemployment depriving some workers of even the very little they could get.

The idea that 50% of the people think that there should be a minimum wage means one of the following to me:
1) People are unbelievably cruel and hateful and believe that there is nothing wrong with slavery by any other name
2) They are millionaires and also think that there is nothing wrong with slavery and grinding poverty due to their oligarchical disposition
3) They are trolling
4) They have no historical, political or economic understanding outside of a few Keynsianist economics classes and Paul Krugman articles
5) They believe fundamentally that humans are unable to know what's best for themselves and should not be allowed to voluntarily trade and exchange with other human beings



Edit: I'm not trying to be a troll, and would sincerely like to have a rational dialogue with you, but do you see how easy that is?

This is probably true but hard to say with any certainty. I know plenty of people with no degree or even GED who have drifted through plenty of "dead-end" jobs: Blockbuster, McDonalds, Securitas, Regal Cinemas....

Please specify your terms, what is "canarchy" and what is "sanarchy"?

Received payment, thanks.  Sorry for the late confirmation; internet troubles.

Life isn't fair.  Nature does not bestow upon us equal and fair characteristics, physical or mental.  Some people are born smarter, stronger, better-looking and with larger dicks than others.  Humanity will never achieve social equality, it is a chasing after the wind.  The best we can do is to minimize coercion in society and teach each other to respect and help each other (the true concept of community), but not to force individuals to help others. 

Any specific passages, ideas or arguments you wish to critique?

To find out who truly owns something, ask yourself this question:  Who makes the decisions in regard to the property? Who is the ultimate decision maker and who has the power to destroy it?

Who cares?  Why does it matter?

Which is what? I'm curious.

Well said, sir. 

Wow, just read your reply.  Did that donation never come through?  I wonder if I sent it to the wrong address or something.

I recommend:  Boundaries of Order, by Butler Schafer

Free in pdf here.

Hmm, not to be a stickler, but what is "minimal" and who gets to decide it?