Walter Block: "Topics of Advanced Libertarianism" (Part 1 of 9)

Walter Block, the distinguished political theorist, professor, and Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Layola University, speaks to Students for Liberty on the evening of Friday, November 5th, 2010 about issues of advanced libertarianism-- namely roads, immigration, the environment, and the military.

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• anarcho-capitalism
• private roads
• immigration
• environment
• military

[enotdetcelfer]

A bit disappointed that he didn't address the fact here, perhaps he does elsewhere, that it is in the best interest of businesses to have nice roads that lead to them, and the best interest of people to have roads that lead to their houses. Roads would exist even if they weren't public or private... And gated communities protect the roads that the community maintains from unwanted traffic and wear... There are so many options people can think of if they only tried and that's the real point hehe

[trlckykid]

1:22, someone farts.

[KyleSkullz]

@trlckykid

lol!

[Hashishin13]

The roads back in the day weren't "no-ones" the land was owned outright by the King or the government, it's just that they didn't bother investing, preventing anyone from making new ones or acknowledge their existence in any meaningful way. It was owned, just ignored.

[Hashishin13]

@enotdetcelfer Yea and who even needs road anyway, you know that right now with the market still so small and limited a two seater helicopter only costs 100k? A four seater is 150k. they only sell a few thousand a year I think, imagine if they scaled up to car factory production levels!

[Hashishin13]

@CytherLynx One suggestion on how we would actually get to privatised roads, rivers and lakes is that everyone who uses them would be given an amount of shares in the "road company" based on how much/often/legitimately they used it previously. I think that is along your lines of thinking.

My suggestion would be that maybe 51% be given to the users and 49% be sold to either pay off the gov's debt or help start the company properly, or both.

[CytherLynx]

@CytherLynx and btw, the ethics of liberty is amazing and must be read for any serious thinker of this view.

[CytherLynx]

i have just finished reading 'the ethics of liberty'. i am convinced of Austrian economics, and such, but i just think there is more too this privatised roads and similar matters

i mean for thousands of years, we would have just treated roads as no-ones. then we started having standards, and it became the governments/ = bad. but i'm not so sure private is best.

property is dynamic and a product of 'ESS' (dawkin's 'selfish gene') imo.

i'm still formulating my views though.

[CalSFL]

@bitbutter You are absolutely welcome to clean the audio on this video and mirror it on your channel.