[HN Gopher] The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman [pdf] Author : mhb Score : 16 points Date : 2023-03-11 19:44 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (daviddfriedman.com) (TXT) w3m dump (daviddfriedman.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-11 23:00 UTC)