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Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know. Also, could we possibly qualify or quantify the alternative? How unlikely is it to work? 50/50? 60/40? And how much better is it? A 1% improvement? 200% improvement? All good things to discuss. Furthermore, this doesn’t apply to “fiat maxis” because the fiat system DOESN’T work in the first place. We are replacing it with a system that does work, which is bitcoin. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Which lightning wallet do you use to fund the escrow? I was using Phoenix, but it recently stopped working. I haven’t done the legwork to figure out which lightning wallet to use, and lightning is always so difficult. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Is that how much space they need? Seems small. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota When I look at Marty Bent, I definitely think, “that’s the picture of health. That dude is so fit and has such an admirable physique.” npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota It depends npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Sauce? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Two outcomes: 1) Saylor dies with his keys, making all other bitcoin more valuable by effectively destroying some supply. 2) Saylor eventually sells/spends Bitcoin, thus returning supply to the market, but to those from whom he derives value, i.e., the productive members of society. It’s a win win. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota I can’t tell if they’re joking or not npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Why is everyone white 🤔 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Who, @npub1cn4…3vle ? 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My recommendation would be 1) add an about page and 2) let people exit out of the donate request so it doesn’t completely block all content. https://image.nostr.build/9109d350a861d62cfd4ccc392469b30612829eb382c145071348c08a6d3301b5.jpg npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota https://image.nostr.build/13b16037de5b2f2133e93c9b45a48d989716ddfcd2a603471c4db48b4b7226db.gif npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota What are people paying you for 🤔 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota https://image.nostr.build/2a41744253cdb123a0e831f4f9c6a304756da6f130f9bcedd2f45f00830c00e6.jpg npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota HOW DO WE CIRCUMVENT THESE CENTRALIZED SERVICES?! npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota How do I get / use it? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota But how save videos to phone then? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota More importantly, wen long press save? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Long press save video wen @npub18m7…q955 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota That person that served you your chipotle burrito? They got to work using public transportation. The job that you got? The position was only open because someone higher up was incentivized to retire due to social security kicking in, and everyone moved up the chain making a vacant position for you. That customer buying a good or service from your small business? Their life was saved due to Medicaid. And they only have money to spend due to unemployment benefits. Even if you never directly use the goods and services for which taxes pay, it does not mean that you aren’t indirectly benefiting from them. How would you go about quantifying the indirect benefits that we ALL get from public services, and how would you go about putting a price tag on that in an equitable way to taxpayers? How does the free market and privatized everything account for this without just making the world a worse place? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota That also seems to go against the non aggression principle, no? Attacking a nation that didn’t attack you just to destabilize it? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota In a world with an open market of PDA’s, where there is no monopoly, and there is competition amongst the various PDA’s, how is consensus reached on the market to make a coordinated attack? How do customers “vote” to attack and destabilize a nation, and is there reason to believe that an uncoordinated attack would always work? Say that a single PDA had a fraction of the US military’s might; how effective is this against an entire nation? I feel like the problem with these scenarios and questions is that’s it’s all theoretical. We could come up with examples of where PDAs might work, and can equally come up with examples of where they don’t and couldn’t work. But it feels like there is a degree of hubris required among ancaps to claim with any degree of certainty that they definitely would work as a viable alternative to a states monopoly of a military. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota The anarcho capitalist answer to military seems to be private defense agencies (PDAs). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_defense_agency In reading through this page, it discusses the dilemma of the “free rider.” This is a person who does not pay for defense services for themselves, but still receive defense benefits from their neighbors who do. Rothbards answer is to say “who cares?” And you know. That’s interesting. I don’t really have a response to that right now except to say, I think it’s a bad incentive, and we all know incentives matter. It would become a game of chicken and the egg to see who could get away without paying for defense, often with the poorest of us the likeliest losers. Also, the defense agency will have less resources, and be worse, without everyone paying for it. The page also discusses how corporations would need, and be able to afford, the most defense. So now imagine Amazon is paying for 90% of the services of a particular agency; in other words, 90% of the revenue of that PDA is from Amazon. Essentially, that PDA is completely beholden to Amazon; if Amazon goes down, then they go down. Amazon has a military. Is anarcho capitalism just building corporatocracy? Is that the land scape we want to live in? A land owned by corporations? What are the possible negative or positive ramifications of this? To what extent would Amazon just “do it themselves” and integrate defense into their own business model (armored trucks for example)? And do we want private companies militarizing themselves? Does that make companies worse since they can’t specialize and must be a jack of all trades? Finally, in the anarcho capitalistic opines, are other states around the globe just non existent? The Wikipedia page discusses how the PDAs would be mostly set up for defense, with markets choosing to minimize offensive strategies (although no arguments are given as to why this might be the case). Would a PDA, or collective group of them, be able to go to war with an adversarial state like Russia, China, or the Middle East? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota The exact methods with which taxes are collected are up for healthy discussion. I don’t presume to have the answers. Critiques with the current methods are not arguments against taxes in general. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota No, I don’t think we are paying a fair tax load for the goods and services we receive. I think we are getting shafted by high taxes probably as much as anyone. I think taxes should be lower, and I think taxes shouldn’t be spent on nearly as many things as they currently are. But this is not an argument against taxation in general. You can critique the current instantiation of government/taxes. But that is not an argument against government/taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota No, the point is that you have to make the exchange at some point, or else you die. You have to pay to live, it’s not an argument about whether you have a choice or not. You said “I shouldn’t have to pay to exist” but you do. At some point you have to pay to live; you have to pay for the food at some point or else you die. Whether you have a choice regarding who you buy the food from is a mute point. There are other examples like land/property. You exist in physical meat space, and you must exist in a location. Land is not free. In order for you to exist, you have to either buy land, or rent land from someone else. That means you have to pay to exist. If you want to talk about having freedom to make exchange, that’s what democracy and voting is. In a perfect world, you can vote and control the terms of the exchange; how much you pay and what you get in return. In a perfect world you would get the same optionality as you would from buying groceries. But at some point, the exchange must occur, just like groceries. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota I guess you could willingly choose to not procure food and then starve to death, is that your point? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota None of what you just said is an argument against taxes. It’s all critiques of the government, how big it is, and what it’s doing. And that’s all valid. And, as a minarchist, I probably agree with you on a ton of that stuff. But you can critique all of that and still argue in favor of taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Sorry, thats not an argument against what I’m saying, so it’s not “done.” For the arguments that I am putting forward, taxation is not an infringement of property rights because it is part of a negotiated exchange. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota The argument I provided is valid though. Your group of ignorantly free people will just get taken over or die. Or the quality of life will be much much lower because you don’t live in a society with the division of labor. There is no way for you guys to collectively congregate and make group level decisions. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Yeah but that’s a critique of the current establishment, not an argument against the idea of taxes. I agree, taxes should be much lower and we shouldn’t be deficit spending. Cutting military budget significantly would go a long way to stop the endless wars and needless killing. But this is an argument for less taxes, and directing the funds to other fruitful things. This is not an argument against taxes in general. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Voluntary militias will not handle nearly everything. Voluntary militias would not be able to afford the engineering and maintenance of nuclear missiles, jets, or tanks. And this will be necessary to defend yourself against the neighboring group of people that are cooperating to achieve these things. I’m sorry but it is a reality that this technology already exists and cannot be done away with, so your militia needs this technology if it is to stand a chance. Also, your voluntary militia will be less well trained than the trained soldiers of a standing military. So, sorry, you and you your non coercive neighbors just got taken over. But let’s say that you don’t get taken over. You said courts will be replaced by binding arbitration. Who enforces this arbitration? So day 1 of ancapistan, someone breaks your contract. You challenge them to a duel and get shot and die. Well, that was a nice attempt at ancapistan. If only there was a way for a third party to rule judgement over a contract that didn’t involve violence. That’s what judges are. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Yeah, I can agree with that 100%. That’s still not an argument against taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota I’m not entitled to anything that you make or earn just as you are not entitled to the goods and services for which others payed. I agree with most of the things that you said you don’t need, except: I think you do need border protection, otherwise the neighborhood (state) next door will ransack your village and rape your woman. I doubt you want that. I think you do need the fire department. Do you have a fire truck? Do you have a firehose? Do you have a fire hydrant? I doubt it. I think you do need courts. Who is going to judge over all of your contracts when the terms are broken? I agree that schools can be private or homeschooling is a viable option. Please provide me with clear examples of how those goods and services could be offered with a private company. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota But what if someone didn’t want to help build the wall? Same thing applies, are they forced to help, or forced to leave? When you live with your group of people who don’t believe in coercion, how would you coordinate with them to build a wall to protect yourselves? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Yeah, it might actually the other way around. By not paying taxes, you are trying to reap the benefits of a society that you didn’t help pay for. You are in effect stealing from everyone else. Why are you trying to steal from me bro? You can’t enjoy the protection of a border from a standing army that you did not help pay for. And currently, I am of the opinion that there are certain goods and services that are best provided by the collective action of cooperating individuals. We call those cooperating individuals the state, and we call the money payed for those goods and services taxes. I consider military, police, and courts to be examples of such goods and services. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota But we kicked you out of the neighborhood because you didn’t help pay for the wall? What group of people is going to let you reap the benefits of things that you didn’t pay for? Nobody. You are not in any of the neighborhoods (remember this is an analogy for a state). At this point you are subsistence farming for yourself because you are not enjoying the division of labor that comes with society. So I guess you can try to trade us some of your shitty potato’s you grew for yourself, but Joe down the street has a potato farm so we don’t really need to trade with you. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota POV: you are arguing with an ancap on why some minimum amount of taxes might be necessary (and actually good 😮) https://image.nostr.build/56e2955f4d50cffc523293c739db5d36a929442c7214c13fa285ff84fc8c047b.gif npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota If you want to live a completely isolated life outside of society with no human interaction at all, then yes. You do not need governance and do not need to pay taxes. That is a fair and valid point. If you want to join the rest of us over here in the neighborhood with the wall, where you can trade and exchange and act with your fellow man, we will gladly let you in, so long as you pay your fair share for the next project we build. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota It’s not evil if it is something that you are willing to pay for. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota So I think you are arguing in favor of taxation then? The critique is “how much” and “what it’s spent on” but not whether it should exist, no? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Let me put this in the most Austrian Economic way possible, so that maybe you, and the others that will see this repost, can understand. I am of the belief that there are certain goods and services that satisfy the preferences of all people which are best provided by cooperative action between individuals. We call the cooperative individuals “the state” and we call the money that they pay for these goods and services “taxes.” This is not an argument for big government. This is not an argument for exorbitant taxes. This is a true statement even down to the tiniest most decentralized state you can imagine. The state could be the size of a neighborhood, and this would still be true. Thoughts? Willing to hear your side. I’m so close to being an ancap, please get me there daddy 😩 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Cope npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Dude I’m not even religious about it lol. I don’t have any blind faith in anything. I’m not worshiping anything 😂 like just give me a good reason to believe what you are saying. Give me an argument that I can’t counter. And just dropping a book on me and telling me to read it isn’t an argument. I’ve read a LOT of Austrian economic books. Ludwig von mises and Rothbard mostly. I’m willing to change my mind, you just haven’t convinced me yet. You on the other hand haven’t countered anything I have said, but you are not willing to change you’re mind, so who is the religious one 🤔 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Because I think the alternatives are worse or don’t work at the extremes. Lesser of two evils kind of deal. If I can be convinced that the alternatives would work, I’d be willing to change my mind. Privately owned military doesn’t make sense. Privately owned diplomats don’t make sense. Having all transportation and transportation infrastructure be privately owned doesn’t make sense. I think you guys think that I am arguing for socialism. Even if 0.01% of transportation should be public, with 99.99% being privately owned, that still justifies taxation. And you are better off for it. Same thing applies to healthcare too. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Thanks man, I appreciate it! I’m just trying to be intellectually honest. I’ve been doing a deep dive into Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and anarcho-capitalism, but I’ve yet to hear convincing arguments against a minimum viable state and minimum viable taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota That may or may not be true, I’m not sure. Even if it is true, it does not make the statements that “taxation is theft” nor “taxation is slavery” true statements. The fact that things can be provided by collective action is not an argument that proves taxation is theft or slavery. They are not mutually exclusive; both things can be true. I also question the ethical and moral implications of some services being provided by the private sector. For example, I don’t want private companies funding standing militaries. I don’t want to pay a subscription fee to a private company for military protection. I think that is worse than a state funded military. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota I don’t seem to get as many #zaps when I’m arguing in favor of taxes 😂 npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota But that’s not the situation at all. The rapist is getting raped and doesn’t get anything good or wanted in return. With taxes, you do get good things in return. And even if you don’t directly get them, other people do, and that’s so so good for you because we live in a society where we all benefit many order of magnitudes greater than what we could on our own because of the division of labor. That’s straight from the book Human Action by Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises. Also, the raped person doesn’t get to be involved with the process of creating the terms of the exchange. In a good healthy functioning state, that would be the case. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Sure, you can question the government, and that is great. I encourage you to do so. Obviously not everything they say is a lie. They tell the truth plenty. Governments and states doing bad things is not an argument against taxes in general, because they don’t have to be bad and do bad things. Saying “everything the state has it has stolen” is also not true. Taxes are not theft. It is an exchange. You get goods and services in exchange for your taxes. An exchange is not theft. You can debate the terms of the exchange, but it is not theft. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Nope. I’m American. Voted for Trump. Pro 2A. Have an AR15 I built from an 80% finished lower. Raised on a farm. I hunt. I’m in favor of smaller government and lower taxes. You have still not convinced me why we shouldn’t pay taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota “Governments are tax farms that manage human livestock.” On a farm, can the livestock vote for new farmers? Can they negotiate with the farmer for different terms of their exchange? Can the livestock overthrow the farmer if they get up fed up with the farm? I don’t think this analogy holds water. The rest of what you said is not an argument against taxes. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Taxes are you paying for goods and services provided by the government to the benefit of everyone. It is an exchange. An exchange is not theft. An exchange is not slavery. Did slave masters pay their slaves? Yes, sometimes, but mostly no. But the difference is, you couldn’t vote for a different slave master, and you couldn’t negotiate with your slave master on the terms of the exchange. Taxation, therefore, is not slavery. But I am willing to be challenged on this and end up wrong! I have an open mind and am but a poor pleb who stays humble and stacks bitcoin. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota It’s great to criticize that, and you should, but it’s not a case against taxes. A government could collect taxes to build a standing army for the purposes of national defense and border protection to the benefit of all of the citizens of the nation, and could do so without committing war crimes. What would be the alternative method for raising a standing army? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Do you have a response to any of the points I laid out? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Yeah, I don’t think the philanthropist argument is really strong. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota That is interesting. I had not heard of a non compulsory tax. If the tax is non compulsory, at what point is it paid? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota That is a great example. It’s a great thing to critique the squandering and inefficient use of taxes, and also to highlight whatever possible corruption might be happening. I think that example highlights that it’s a question of how much, what it’s spent on, and is it being used effectively; it’s not an argument to say that taxes shouldn’t exist. The fact that taxes currently get misused is not an argument against taxes, it’s an argument against the misuse of taxes. I’ll finish reading Human Action, but when I’m done, what history book would you recommend I pick up to learn more about taxes? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Unless you don’t believe in value for value. I thought that’s why we were all here. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Ludwig Von Mises himself, in his book Human Action, is quoted as saying that we all benefit from the division of labor that is brought about by, and only possible because of, collective society. Seeing as we all benefit from the division of labor collectively, what value are you willing to pay in exchange for having access to this society from which we all benefit? Certainly you are willing to pay something in exchange for this service? We call that taxes. The question is how much, not if. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota Ludwig Von Mises himself, in his book Human Action, is quoted as saying that we all benefit from the division of labor that is brought about by, and only possible because of, collective society. Seeing as we all benefit from the division of labor collectively, what value are you willing to pay in exchange for having access to this society from which we all benefit? Certainly you are willing to pay something in exchange for this service? We call that taxes. The question is how much, not if. npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota What’s wrong with that line of thinking? npub13p5kny6j6valcshaa9sns8a6yg2p5gu2fuqyd4acsy8g03xmlu5qfpyttq Dakota This is a psyop. Do not listen to this advice if you are new to the space or technologically illiterate like me. I lost sats using Blixt. Blixt (Lightning network in general), is difficult. It’s hard to use, manage, and navigate. 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