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Hi Dave,

I'm a big fan of yours and your show. You really have influenced my way of looking at the world.

I'm an app developer and student, and I've developed an app which matches you with someone you politically disagree with. The goal is to improve political discourse, break down echo chambers and bring people together that have different political opinions.

I thought you'd really love the idea. Maybe you can have a look at it some time.

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thesio-revolutionizing-political-discourse/id1218452343

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thesioapp.Thesio

It would be an honor to hear your thoughts. I think this app aims to do exactly what you're trying to do as well: Have a candid, open minded discussion with people from the different side of the political spectrum. Something we need more of, more than ever. It's supposed to be a counter draft to the status quo of mainstream political discussion.

Sorry if this seems like an ad, I just really wanted to tell you about my idea. Keep doing what you're doing!

Essential Reading:

• On Liberty: by John Stuart Mill

• Capitalism and Freedom: by Milton Friedman

• The Road to Serfdom: by Friedrich A. Hayek

• The Wealth of Nations: by Adam Smith

• Second Treatise of Government: by John Locke

• The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton

Each of these authors posses a great wealth of knowledge on their respective subjects, and give invaluable insight into the nature, place, and purpose of government, capitalism, and the citizen.

Take for example this quote by Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom: >Under such a standard, any monetary powers of government would be very minor in scope. But, as just noted, such an automatic system has historically never proved feasible. It has always tended to develop in the direction of a mixed system containing fiduciary elements such as bank notes and deposits, or government notes in addition to the monetary commodity

The reason behind this phenomenon is that the price of gold is so great that even an oz of it has immense value. Because of this gold is often issued for bank notes, thus leading to the type of monetary system we had before the Second World War. Since copper is less rare, but still considered a precious metal it can keep it's value overtime without the immense value thus exchange for bank notes is not needed.

I've also shared over on steemit. I've got some followers over there that already blog about liberty, maybe they'll help your cause!

Welcome home!

Looking at this as a quest for self-discovery, I'd certainly say you're in the right place. I have found that the people in this thread are typically pretty supportive of constructive and civil dialogue.

Also, be sure to check out the reading material! I'm always advocating for "Capitalism and Freedom" by Friedman. It may be of special interest to you, provided your background, because it focuses quite a bit on Classical Liberal thought regarding undermined portions of Society (racial/religious minorities, etc.)

False.

Clear and easy to understand important and far-reaching topics.

The pdf download is free, but consider hard copy ($14US) to donate to your public library. The link to purchase from IEA is broken but it's still available on bn and amzn. To support multiple libraries, the OP says to contact them at [email protected] re. discounts on 5 or more copies.

Those infected by the media hysteria can't seem to wrap their mind around the fact that only the very old, people with certain underlying medical problems, or very obese are significantly at risk. This population might be as much as 20% of the whole. The mortality rate for the elderly group, last I checked, was about 13%.

Up until middle-age and as long as you are relatively healthy, the mortality rate is likely to be about one tenth of one percent. Certainly not worth the potential secondary effects of shutting down the economy this long:

https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://search.yahoo.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1019&context=honors_economics

People need stuff to live, or they die. There's only so much stuff. This not work unless you want to comment is pure fantasy and shows that the speaker isn't living in the real world. No matter what sort of authoritarian regime you dream up, you can't have stuff unless someone produces it. So either you produce stuff yourself, or you force others to produce stuff for you.

Under freedom you produce stuff yourself and voluntarily trade with others to get the right stuff. Under communism government forces you to produce stuff for them. There's no not work unless you want to option.

One of my favorite books about communism is not directly about communism at all. It's the very funny autobiographical The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army. The author starts out a true believer in communism working on a communal farm. First communism kills his crops (a funny story of its own) so he has to join the Army to survive. But he stays a true believer. While in the Army, he is reprimanded for some minor offense and as punishment he and a friend are sent to clean out the sewers at a dacha for politburo members. They talk about the coming glory days of "true communism", where everything will be plentiful, and no one will have to work if they don't want to, and how wonderful that will be! And then suddenly it dawns on him: who will clean out the sewers under "true communism"? And with that little realization, the facade of communism came crumbling down.

Welcome home!

Looking at this as a quest for self-discovery, I'd certainly say you're in the right place. I have found that the people in this thread are typically pretty supportive of constructive and civil dialogue.

Also, be sure to check out the reading material! I'm always advocating for "Capitalism and Freedom" by Friedman. It may be of special interest to you, provided your background, because it focuses quite a bit on Classical Liberal thought regarding undermined portions of Society (racial/religious minorities, etc.)

>To be frank, I haven't had much desire in reading about anarchism as I simply don't have the time to invest in it, rather choosing to read about more relevant and real world tested movements. I also feel like anyone who has even a cursory understanding of how humans tend to act would decide to waste little time with the majority of the forms of anarchism.

Sidenote: Funny - those are basically my exact feelings towards Libertarianism, and Classical Liberalism to a lesser extent (and I'm no anarchist for the record). Check out books on behavioral economics such as Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow or Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler. They make a very strong case against economic models that take for granted the rationality of agents. Anyway, cheers.

I would throw "Economics in One Lesson" By Henry Hazlitt on there as well. Great book outlining basic free-market principles, but doesn't assume any prior economic knowledge on the part of the reader.