The Trouble With Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe | Douglas E. French

Presented by Douglas E. French at "The Delusion of Good Government": the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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[93msinclair]

Democracy is inherently immoral. It assumes that we have no rights as humans and we should simply be granted our rights by the majority. But of course it's even worse than that because the majority inevitably overlooks the special interests and grants them special privelages.

[bartj777]

@spikesmth I've been studying Austrian economics for over a year now, and I've never heard anyone ever mention anything about "perfect information" or "perfect competition."

Methinks you are blowing at straw men.

[babubabu11]

The substantial stuff starts at 8:09.

[cannotbebothered100]

When I was about 15 I recognised what Hoppe once claimed is not often recognised (and I was then totally uneducated in any economics but superficial understanding of it), that with monarchy the State will have some incentive to impose less Statism if it recognises that its intervention ultimately makes the society from which it leeches poorer, whereas democracy doesn't have that monarch worrying about the value he'll be able to leech later in life or give to his heirs due to having limited terms

[KommanderWill]

Easily Doug French's best speech on here.

[99missingperson99]

@99missingperson99 Our wealth would be unimaginable and to protect it and prevent past problems from occurring for the umpteenth time.Lets try to find a way to prevent it from happening again.Words and $ are the tools of manipulation cause naked violence doesnt work on this large of a scale.Your troops wont fight for you if not conditioned first.Remove their tools of negative conditioning and manipulation and the traditional fears that are real now will be false then.Understand?

[99missingperson99]

@99missingperson99 All the wasted $ that goes to Corruption , the FED, Wars, Campaigns..ect. Is our $.We need to reclaim it and dole out to the state or federal governments like the subcontractors they are.We want this,show us the bid financials and all.If we think its fair we pay to have this item done.We could build massive beneficial automated infrastructure for what they waste.In our hands this $ could be use to create common projects instead of industrial parks for 1 company.

[99missingperson99]

@dynomyght No i'm not and I agree in a monetary economics paradigm these are needed protections.Lets say like the "person" was a created legal fiction for contractual purposes with other corporate fictions or entities(originally as a protection from what they are doing now as the story goes)was abused and taken over.We gave,through the registering of the birth certificate,our equal share in the GDP or resources of our land.Which in case you dont know the USA is a corporation(article of inc.1868)

[99missingperson99]

@truevoice08

Well versed, Freedomain radio is in my subscriptions right along with mises institute and many more. Have been for awhile. Look, I agree with the freeman position and a lot of what we need to do to get back to a position of authority over ourselves. My real question is what then? What measures will prevent the manipulation all over again? Maybe we need to get to that point first, but then we need to ask ourselves what kind of a society do we want to create that will stop this?

[truevoice08]

@99missingperson99 I am amazed at the number of people who criticize anarchocapitalists w/o even having read a wikipedia article about it. The idea that anarchocapitalism will result in feudalism is absurd. Pls read "The Market for Liberty" by Linda and Morris Tannehill or "Practical Anarchy" by Stefan Molyneux before commenting further.

[hcarter75]

@99missingperson99 A society BASED on the consumption of fixed resources will eventually consume itself. Hence, the problem with Democracy. 

[dynomyght]

Stupidbuild is a self righteous moron, who lives in a dream world instead of the real world of humans who are capable of good and evil. His self righteousness is basically immoral. Because you think Kildall is better then Gates, well the world certainly patronized Gates more then Kildall. And they are free to do it. And thats democracy my friend in action. missingperson I think you are missing the life, liberty and property protection thing completely.