[HN Gopher] The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman [pdf]
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       The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman [pdf]
        
       Author : mhb
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-03-11 19:44 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | roenxi wrote:
       | Society is composed of lots of little tribes (each a few 10s or
       | 100s of thousands of people).They have different values, they see
       | the world in different ways. The real power of the internet over
       | the last 30 years is it is now all but impossible for a tribe not
       | to get its message out there if it cares to. I like to point to
       | the fact that people are now able to compare commercial media
       | narratives to what the people involved actually said. It was
       | always obvious that there was a gap, but the size of that gap was
       | much bigger than most people realised. The consensus of opinion
       | was always an illusion.
       | 
       | People can fight it as much as they like, but the libertarian
       | answer of promoting freedom and equalising power between those
       | tribes is the strategy that will lead to the best outcomes for
       | most people. A state isn't populated by a homogeneous group of
       | people and we have to tolerate real diversity of opinion. It is
       | the classic Stallman situation - the people advocating for more
       | freedom usually turn out to be better at getting sustainable
       | outcomes.
        
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