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Location: Squadcast
Date: Tuesday 3rd November
Project: Amber
Role: CEO

The sound money properties of Bitcoin attract those interested in Austrian Economics and Libertarianism; in fact, Libertarians were one of the earliest groups of people to adopt Bitcoin and truly understand its importance and value.

Since I've gone down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, Libertarianism has been something that I have paid close attention to on the show. The arguments for an anarchist society are compelling; however, one thing that I have always struggled with is how an anarchist society would work and how we would transition to this from a democratic society.

In this interview, I talk to Aleks Svetski, a Libertarian who has written several articles outlining how he thinks an anarchist society would work. We discuss libertarianism, democratic v anarchist societies and the erosion of individual freedoms.

00:04:30: Introductions
00:05:58: Peter's starting views on democracy and libertarianism
00:07:21: Aleks's starting views on democracy and libertarianism
00:11:34: "A priori" truths explained
00:14:42: Universal basic income
00:16:46: Some basic a priori truths
00:21:49: The difference between libertarianism and anarchism
00:23:57: The topic for debate
00:26:58: Australia - a dystopian nightmare?
00:32:13: Hypocrisy - good or bad?
00:34:34: Power and control
00:54:58: Theft and violence
01:00:58: Violence and personal conflict
01:04:42: The bottom-up approach
01:11:28: Tyranny vs democracy
01:16:07: Problems and solutions
01:22:30: Clare Graves' Spiral Dynamics
01:30:40: Positives for the state
01:33:46: The DuPont case in point
01:48:10: Enforcing the libertarian model
01:59:54: The existence of monopolies
02:09:37: Borders
02:14:58: Defence
02:27:40: Can the large state be overthrown by anarchy?
02:33:33: Bitcoin-based societies
02:38:48: The Constitution
02:42:15: Peter's conclusions
02:43:46: Minarchism
02:49:11: A description of democracy
02:53:05: Final comments

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• Mentioned in the interview: 

  • Anarchism

  • Minarchism

  • Libertarianism 

  • A priori and a posteriori

  • Principle of non-aggression 

  • Libertarianism in Emergencies

  • Coercion: A Libertarianism.org Guide 

  • Debates within libertarianism 

  • The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare 

  • Hunt Elephants to Save Them? Some Countries See No Other Choice 

  • Chernobyl disaster

  • Free market

  • Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea 

  • Immanuel Kant (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 

  • Why I was right about Victoria's police state 

  • Time preference 

  • Human Action 

  • U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households 

  • The Territorial Imperative 

  • Rothbard and the Nature of the State 

  • Ludwig von Mises 

  • But Wouldn't Warlords Take Over? 

  • Murray Rothbard 

  • Clare W. Graves: Levels of Human Existence 

  • Dark Waters (2019) 

  • Why Open Borders Between States in America Might Lead to Disaster | Ryan McMaken 

  • Market Borders, not Open Borders | Mises Wire 

  • How Government Regulation Makes Us Poorer 

  • The Fourth Turning 

  • Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota

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