LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY (worth repeating) —“So whethe

LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY

(worth repeating)

—“So whether one chooses the necessary and sufficient arguments of Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism (Aristocracy), or the luxuries of humanitarian libertarianism (Classical Liberalism), that is merely a preference, not a question of possibility. While the choice of rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism (Libertinism) is just the opposite: it’s impossible.”—

We do not get to choose the incentives that will produce a voluntary anarchic polity. We can estimate them. Wet can test them. We can demonstrate them. We can measure them. But we cannot choose them.

Transaction costs determine the desirability of different polities. The rational choice of a voluntary, anarchic polity over a statist polity requires a high trust society.

Once one possesses a voluntary, high trust society, one can also engage in the production and consumption of luxuries – commons. But luxuries are not the same as necessities.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev