Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
How about a similar related paradox?
ReplyDeleteStatistician Douglas Hubbard regularly advises public sector agencies and private corporations on "decision analysis".
In his conversations, he is amazed to find that a very large number of public sector workers see the private sector as the beacon of efficiency and the public sector as a pit of ineptitude and failure.
And when he speaks to executives in private businesses, he finds they often wish they were like the military or other government-based departments in their analyses and achievements.
Race?
ReplyDeleteStaten Island has bigger white population.
Than my neighborhood? (I am comparing SI to my neighborhood, not to Brooklyn.)
DeleteIn any case, I think everyone of these liberal entrepreneurs that I know is white.
Another paradox: America's most successful private schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.) tend to be more liberal than your average state school.
ReplyDeleteI saw a gay couple at Chick-fil-A today.
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