Stefbot and Linearity

Playlist: Stefbot and Anarchy http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=E6914B10B566F23D

Stefbot is a smart guy, and a good guy, and much more gracious and even-tempered than I am this evening, but if you watch the video this responds to (The Proof For Anarchy), do so at your peril. It is presented in a very tedious way. He may be smart, but in this video he is not persuasive, and if he is right, it is not for the reasons he presented. I don't know if his conclusions are right, and no one should think his conclusions are right because of the arguments presented.

I've enjoyed hearing his ideas through others such as Luke 12000 or LiberyIsNotGiven or D4Shawn. Some of the others who talk on this subject seem to have his dick stuck in their mouths, so they don't speak as clearly.

Have you ever heard of things that are inversely proportional to each other? Have you ever heard of things that are inelastic, or have negative elasticity? Are there other major factors not considered in his argument that may be relevant?

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Stefbot
• anarchy

[crazycatfguy]

What would stop his DROs from forming monopolies and since they control your access to society charging so much that it puts society into poverty?

[DarwinsHamster]

My guess is that his answer would be competition. But there's a lot about this I don't understand. I wish there was a way to do experimental research that wouldn't be potentially more destructive than what we have now to try some of these things.

[howtofoldsoup]

Man...I miss your videos. Keep 'em coming.

[DarwinsHamster]

Like throwing gasoline on a fire. Thanks.

[crazycatfguy]

If dairy farmers create a monopoly to inflate the price of milk I can boycott milk. If energy companies create monopolies we are screwed. Even with so called regulation the corporations find enough loopholes to get around it. If this happens in a regulated environment what should we expect from an unregulated environment?

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

You're committing a common equivocation by speaking of corporatism and anarchism interchangeably. This fallacy has been debunked repeatedly by economists and thinkers at least as far back as Frederic Bastiat.

[jeffiek]

@crazycatfguy There is far too much nonsense in your post to counter in 500 characters.

But let's start with the obvious:

"The "loophole" was enacted in sections § 2(h) and (g) of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, signed by U.S. president Bill Clinton on December 21, 2000.[1] "

wikipedia(.)org/wiki/Enron_loo­phole

Sucks when reality isn't on your side, doesn't it?

[ThePhilosophicalMind]

shut de fuck up , ur just jealous of sttebot cos hes got a more popular channel

[WorBlux]

The Austrian school is founded on praxecology. The study and logic of actions and their motivation. The theory is everything you need to know about economics you can learn with your eyes closed and sitting down.

People will apply the first unit of a good towards their most valued use for it. This is true of any good, including money. Elastic on inelastic doesn't matter, Austrians cannot predict the particular values people have at any given time but the relation of values to actions holds true.

[WorBlux]

Actually no, there is a limit in place on the price of energy. Solar energy currently cost 200 dollars per barrel of oil energy equivalent, and small wind generators are even cheaper energy.

[crazycatfguy]

Anarchy deregulates business. Many historical examples of why that does not work. When Thatcher deregulated business in the 70's it created a monster that effected the world wide economy negatively. Google the Enron loophole and see what happened when Bush deregulated the energy sector. What specifically about this works?

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

Maybe you simply didn't understand, because the ideas are in practice now, and they work.

[crazycatfguy]

I used to be an anarchist in the late 80's but gave it up because I think it one of the millions of ideas that look good on paper but will not work in the real world.

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

Crazycatfguy, there are hundreds of podcasts addressing this and many other criticisms on his site (freedomainradio . com).