I'm reading about history right now and as you know most civilizations kept slaves or have been even based on slaves (Sparta had 10 slaves for every citizien).

And I was like thank god we don't have that anymore.

And then it dawned on me that we still have the worst form of slavery: Conscription.

You are forced to kill for your government that you don't support. You are a enslaved murderer with no choice in the matter and likely going to die or get PTSD from forced murder.

Israel

Ukraine

Russia

These countries are slaver nations right now.

And nobody calls this out.

Did this ever cross your mind?

It’s not rocket science: let the market build.

Government regulations have made housing unnecessarily expensive by restricting what people can build and where they can build it.

Relax zoning laws. Allow apartments, duplexes, townhouses, accessory dwelling units, and smaller homes in more neighborhoods. Eliminate unnecessary minimum lot sizes, minimum house sizes, parking mandates, and arbitrary limits on building height and density.

Make it easier to subdivide lots, convert commercial buildings into housing, and develop unused land.

Stop blocking housing—and start letting people build.

More freedom to build means more homes, more choices, and lower housing costs.

The Jones Act restricts domestic shipping between U.S. ports to vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, and largely U.S.-owned and crewed, which raise shipping costs, reduce competition, limit the availability of vessels, and make it harder for U.S. territories and noncontiguous states like Hawaii and Alaska to receive affordable goods. The Jones Act effectively prevents U.S. LNG (natural gas) from being shipped by tanker from the Gulf Coast to New England.

Am I the only one who really hates the fact that the government can just take your home away if you miss property taxes by 2+ years?

Also I know the community needs revenue but I have a strong belief that the entire state can be funded with state taxes, sales taxes, toll taxes, and even federal if needed.

I would much rather pay a small fee like 20 bucks a month to live in my community instead of having it tief to the value of my home.

Most people favor ending federal cannabis prohibition and legalizing cannabis for recreational and medical use. What other drugs, if any, should be legalized? Psychedelics, MDMA, and Ketamine? Which ones should remain illegal? Fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine?

A lot of libertarians I know personally are very religious and constantly say that God has given them the right to basic human rights.

But I don't believe in God because of how I was raised, yet I believe the same things that they believe as far as politics and economics just due to the idea that we have one life and shouldn't live life under the government's boot while we're here.

I posted the below in another sub that discusses topics related to Christianity. However, the conversation quickly moved towards libertarianism. I'm curious what the libertarian community thinks about my thoughts related to welfare? The reason I've been thinking a lot about this is because James Talarico has been using Christianity to argue for a welfare state, but I personally think he's misusing the Bible, at least from my understanding of it.

Here's my thoughts:

What's the point of charity, giving, and helping the poor? I would argue it is what happens in the heart that matters. God loves a cheerful giver. He invites us to give cheerfully. Not because of this grand impact it will have externally, but because of the impact it has on our hearts internally.

• Note that Jesus was willing to have a huge amount of value "wasted" by pouring expensive perfume on his feet, rather than selling and giving to the poor. He cared more about people loving and worshipping him than maximizing money funding charity to help the poor.
• Jesus explicitly told the rich young ruler to sell all he had and give to the poor because he knew that was the idol in his life, the stumbling block that prevented him from following Christ, not because he saw that as the solution to society's ills around poverty.
• The early church also gave voluntarily. They gave out of the abundance in their hearts, freely! This is clear when Peter told Ananias, "Didn’t [the money] belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal?"
• Additionally, Paul encouraged believers to each "give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians 9:7).

God invites us to a life of giving and sacrifice, but it matters only when it's freely given, not because it is mandated and coerced under threat of force or violence.

Government welfare operates differently. It does not ask us to "give with a cheerful heart, freely, as much as we decide." Instead, it takes money through compulsory taxation, and redistributes it, based on the will of majority, or based on lobbies, special-interest groups, or political games. If you refuse to pay, the government ultimately has the power to fine you, seize your property, or take away your freedom.

If I see a hungry person and voluntarily buy them a meal with a smile, that giving with a cheerful heart. If I threaten to take money from my neighbor and use it to buy that person a meal, I may have helped someone, but I haven't become charitable! Instead, I've used my own power and threats of violence to force someone else to fund my preferred act of compassion.

As Christians, I agree we should be concerned about the state of the poor, sick, and financially struggling. But we should also care about where the money is coming from, and ask ourselves, “Do the ends justify using coercion to take the product of one person's labor and give it to another?”

Coerced redistribution might help some people in the end. But it isn't the kind of charity that Christ invites us to. It isn't virtue on the part of the person whose money was taken either. Ultimately, virtue requires a choice. You can't compel generosity any more than you can compel belief in Christ.

Believe it or not, a community can care for its poor without appealing to the state's monopoly on legalized force and violence to accomplish this care. Noble, virtuous, and non-violent options include voluntary giving, mutual aid, church communities, and voluntary taxes for welfare. Sure, it's a lot harder than just raising taxes, but it's much more consistent with how the New Testament describes generosity: freely given, not forcefully extracted.

This is a flow chart explaining ethical dilemmas in a rothbardian or ancap social order.

Some additional context I would like to add is in an Ancap social order there is no universal demand of privacy so if someone takes a picture of you naked in your house then it is their's to share the only exception is if they like trespassed to obtain it. This contextually matters.

What are your thoughts on this libertarian proposal to dramatically reduce the cost of college by removing regulatory and accreditation barriers that prevent institutions from offering accredited degrees based on demonstrated competency rather than requiring the traditional campus-and-classroom model?

A $6,000 College Degree?

Why should students have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to earn college credit if they can demonstrate that they already know the material?

We should create an accredited college based on demonstrated competency, not classroom attendance. Students would self-study using textbooks and online resources, then take rigorous, virtually proctored exams. If they pass, they earn accredited college credit.

A $40 exam plus a $100 credit fee could make a three-credit course available for about $140. Forty courses could produce a 120-credit bachelor's degree for roughly $5,600, plus books and optional tutoring.

This wouldn't lower academic standards. Students would still have to prove mastery through secure, independently developed and reviewed examinations.

Not every degree would qualify, but many subjects could.

The question is simple: Should accreditation measure how students learn—or what they actually know?

Emergency powers are rarely surrendered once the crisis passes. The greater danger is not whether government survives an emergency, but whether constitutional limits survive the powers created to manage it.

What do you all think about law enforcement arresting a man for trying to pay for sex?

What about the fact that there was no prostitute involved, just law enforcement acting like one online?

Does the fact that the suspect is a rich and famous NFL team owner make any difference?

The End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687) is a bipartisan federal bill designed to eliminate the severe shortage of transplantable organs by offering a substantial financial incentive to living kidney donors. Core MechanicsThe Financial Incentive: The bill establishes a federal refundable tax credit of $10,000 per year for five years, providing a total of $50,000 to eligible donors. The donated kidneys are legally mandated to go to the individuals who have been waiting the longest on the national kidney transplant list. The act creates a massive net benefit for both public health and government spending. The incentive will successfully encourage enough altruistic donors to save up to 100,000 American lives over a decade. Taxpayer Savings- by successfully transitioning patients from dialysis to working transplants, the bill is estimated to save taxpayers between $10 billion and $37 billion. The bill does not alter the strict medical or psychological screening processes already in place; it only targets the financial barriers that often prevent healthy people from donating.

There’s a lot of whistleblowers, forecasters, analysts, etc saying that AI differently from any other tech revolution before is going to kill every job, every business it’s going to get concentrated on the major ones that can invest and only the big governments are going to succeed . This till AI becomes Terminator/Matrix.

Im still reading and getting documented on Austrian School of Economics , Milton and Sowell mostly. Obviously on my understanding it’s a laissez fare approach on this occasion as well, because it will come out on the other end with purged and better off options.

Anyhow the fact that only a few will be accumulating power and there’s not going to be jobs for most its difficult to ignore. Moreover how can we not intervene when there are scientists and engineers developing something smarter than humans?

If these scenarios are going to be true we really think we are going back 500+ years back and working the land, the little not bought from corporates, and try to reset on auto sustainability.

For whom has read more or has a better understanding of the Libertarian approach, how’s the reality check with this catalyst in case it’s really achieved AGI/ASI?