Innovations in Technology | Jeffrey A. Tucker

Presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 June 2011.

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[rumco]

End the State!

[irdial]

Tucker introduced me to 'Against Intelectual Monopoly" an extremely important book on Copyright, Patents and all the fallacious arguments that swirl around them. Thanks Mr. Tucker!

[JaguarSoundBlaster]

I could listen to this guy speak forever

[manseelol]

doesnt he get tired of standing up for more than half an hour...

[jpschubbs]

If you took a young Bruce Willis and crossed him with a young Donald Sutherland...you would get Jeff Tucker.

I love this guy.  His excitement about technology is infectious, and his take on things is always new and delightful.

[FireGuyX]

Tucker makes a good point about the public sector always hiding their mistakes. We have a lot of failures in public schooling, public roads, public libraries (in my area), public housing, and yet the governments takes no blame for the damage they caused. The average joe assumes the private sector is causing all this decay when in fact it's the local government that's fucking things up. And of course tax payers will have to pay for the failure of government.

[christo930]

Tucker is getting OLD looking. He looked great last year and now he looks like he aged 10 years since then. I had a friend (sadly, he took his own life) who looked just like Tucker. Both of them have a natural ruffian look, which is why I think he wears the bow tie, but now he just looks like an old man. Too much Bourbon for breakfast, I guess:)

[psmooth777]

This was a wonderful talk, opened me up to a different perspective. It's inspired me to look more into comparisons between the "Gilded Age" and the 20th Century. I had never thought of the 20th-21st Century as a modern dystopia if viewed by someone in the Gilded Age, but that might just be the best description of what we are living in today.

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

@msungs I think the Federal Reserve System will outlive you. We can't abolish it without compensating its private owners for the "taking" according to the Fifth Amendment.

[msungs]

@rumco I am so glad I quit my job as a Policeman and left the US(S)A which is controlled by the Federal Reserve as ''Federal'' as Federal Express. We need a revoulution and to lay siege upon Washington D.C. (District of Criminals). Happy Fourth of July to the FORMER United States of America.

[ghostbuddy]

@Houshalter

Im sticking with what I said earlier: "I don't think its controversial to say intellectual property rights PROBABLY wouldn't (emerge as a result of consumer demand in a polycentric law system)."

Its safe to say weither or not IP laws are "economically beneficial", is very much in dispute, so you're just begging the question anyways.

[Houshalter]

@ghostbuddy how do you know IP wouldn't emerge naturally in some economic environments? Esspecially if it was an economically beneficial rule? Or are you arguing that "emergent" law can't cover some types of rules even if they are economically beneficial, and so wouldn't that be an argument against them?