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Welcome to Keith Knight. 
Don't tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute. 
Here is my latest article at the

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Libertarian Institute. 
Dumbest Venn diagram of all 

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time. 
I believe that every argument 

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should begin with commonly 
understood definitions. 

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Capitalism is a social system 
based on the explicit 

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recognition of private property 
and voluntary contracts. 

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Communism is the abolition of 
private property altogether, and

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socialism is the 
institutionalized aggression 

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against private property and 
contracts between consenting 

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adults. 
Every shortcoming of capitalism 

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applies many times over to 
socialism, since the latter does

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not legally recognize people's 
right to voluntarily defund or 

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disassociate with unproductive 
actors in society. 

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Under capitalism, no one can 
take a penny out of your pocket 

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or get a second of your time 
unless you voluntarily give it 

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to them. 
But under socialism, the state 

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or council or committee has the 
monopolistic privilege to 

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coercively fund certain 
activities via taxation, which 

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means the right to threaten 
people with prison if they don't

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chip in. 
What makes capitalism unique is 

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the right to engage in the 
original appropriation using 

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unclaimed scarce resources and 
contracting with others 

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employees and employers. 
The Venn diagram above literally

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blames all shortcomings of the 
human race on the right of 

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adults to engage in mutually 
beneficial contracts. 

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Let's go 1 by 1. 
Is everyone equal under 

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socialism? 
Senator Bernie Sanders, Hugo 

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Chavez, Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong 
Un, Congresswoman Alexandria 

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Ocasio Cortez, and Jim Jones. 
All of these people are very 

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unequal in social power and 
monetary wealth to others. 

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Even if all wealth were equally 
distributed tonight, within one 

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minute, some people would save, 
others would invest, other would

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spend on prostitutes, others 
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others would buy food, and we'd 
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All humans are unique, meaning 
that whenever we try to achieve 

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a certain goal, some people are 
better organizers and 

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communicators than others. 
A hierarchy is immediately 

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established whenever human 
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when they cooperate. 
Capitalism allows us to trade 

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with people who specialize in 
what they are good at, making 

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everyone better off than they 
otherwise would be. 

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Socialists promote 
egalitarianism since it's 

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unachievable, making it the 
perfect excuse to grow the 

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state. 
Oh, not everyone is equal. 

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Still guess the government needs
more money and power. 

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There was a correlation between 
clean environments and 

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capitalist economies for a 
reason. 

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More freedom leads to more 
investment and social 

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cooperation, leading to more 
innovation, leading to cleaner 

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alternatives available to the 
masses. 

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The profit incentive encourages 
organizations to economize on 

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the resources they consume, 
which is why cell phones, 

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televisions, computers, and 
thumb drives have increased in 

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quality while falling in price, 
while using less and less 

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resources. 
Consider a cell phone, 

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television, or computer in 1980 
and compare it to what is 

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available to the average person 
in a capitalist country today. 

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They all use fewer resources, 
are almost completely 

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privatized, and have increased 
in quality and decreased in 

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price. 
Socialists claim the right to 

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confiscate between 40 and 100% 
of your income are property and 

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fear others might acquire 
property unjustly under 

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capitalism. 
The very nature of socialism is 

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rejecting private property 
rights. 

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The very nature of colonialism 
is taking that which you did not

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acquire via voluntary exchange 
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Being the first user of an 
unclaimed resource. 

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I guess it's super immoral for 
tyrants far away to oppose their

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will on you a little. 
But when socialists claim the 

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right to control all aspects of 
your commercial and social life,

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then domestic imperialism is 
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Socialists are imperialists 
coercively imposing their will 

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on you while forcing you to fund
inadequate schools, then denying

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you school choice. 
The fact that they live in your 

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country and are not a foreign 
imperialist country is 

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equivalent to saying it's wrong 
to sexually harass people if 

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they don't live near you. 
But if someone lives near you, 

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rape is justifiable if it's done
via the democratic process. 

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George Wallace was a famous 
racist in America some time ago.

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He claimed that coercive state 
segregation was a necessary 

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regulation for the betterment of
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Sound familiar? 
He rejected people's right to 

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voluntarily associate, claiming 
that in segregated Alabama they 

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don't have the horrible, 
dangerous riots that 

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desegregated areas suffer from. 
And he said that black suffered 

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from desegregation since they 
could not get easily exploited 

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by a higher IQ population if 
they mixed. 

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The very same reason socialists 
give for why employees, 

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consumers and companies 
shouldn't be able to freely 

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trade in an unregulated market. 
Governor Wallace went on to make

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the case in the 57 minute mark 
of his 1964 UCLA address that 

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blacks can't compete with whites
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They should be separated. 
His proof was that there were 15

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black college presidents in 
Alabama and he couldn't name one

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in desegregated California. 
There was nothing racist about 

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voluntary exchanges, and 
socialism gives racists a state 

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apparatus to coerce racial 
enemies unjustly. 

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Under capitalism, if I'm racist 
and I don't sell to blacks, I 

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lose their business. 
Under socialism, I can get the 

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state to tax them and 
redistribute their money to 

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myself without having to create 
value in exchange. 

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Prejudice can exist under any 
system, but capitalism makes 

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racism less profitable, less 
potential customers and smaller 

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employee pool and allows us to 
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while socialism gives bigots a 
police force to unilaterally 

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impose their will on the rest of
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Have you ever seen wall to wall 
coverage from the corporate 

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press discussing the police 
murdering white man Tony Tempah 

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on camera? 
How about Kelly Thomas? 

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Far from being a white 
supremacist nation, the West 

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today uses the racism conspiracy
theory to get the feeble minded 

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masses to demand bigger and 
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The mass white death currently 
occurring in Ukraine is eagerly 

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encouraged by the establishment.
The mass white death of the 

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American Civil War is 
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The mass white death of the 
First World War is hardly seen 

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as a tragedy, and the most 
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history is the German National 
Socialists, leading to the 

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common justification that 
bombing white German civilians 

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was morally justifiable. 
To get an idea of the scale of 

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German civilian deaths, the 
National World War 2 Museum 

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estimates 8.8 million German 
military and civilian deaths in 

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the Second World War, While the 
ethnic cleansing and mass murder

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operation in Gaza today by the 
Israeli regime is estimated at 

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43,000 civilians and military 
combatants combined. 

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I believe since I've published 
this, that number is closer to 

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118,000. 
Regarding the claim that income 

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disparities prove racism, Asians
have higher incomes than whites 

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in America, as do Nigerian 
immigrants. 

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If employer racism explains the 
white black gap, the socialists 

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must explain why employers pay 
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more money than whites on 
average. 

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Could it be that they have 
different skills, different 

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jobs, different work ethics, and
create different amounts of 

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value for employers? 
How do socialists explain the 

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straight white male wage gap? 
Some straight white men are 

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rich, others are homeless. 
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blacks commit violent crimes 
against whites far more often 

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than the other way around. 
According to Doctor Michael 

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Humor at the University of 
Colorado, homicides committed by

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blacks against whites are more 
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homicides by whites against 
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Despite that, there are more 
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than black people in the United 
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A randomly chosen black person 
is thus 13 times more likely to 

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kill a white person than a 
random white person is to kill a

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black person. 
None of this is to encourage 

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bigotry. 
Men are far more violent than 

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women statistically. 
But I do not advocate 

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discriminating or negatively 
generalizing any group based on 

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arbitrary demographics. 
The point stands that the white 

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supremacy conspiracy theory has 
been debunked. 

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Which of these sounds more 
selfish and individualist? 

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I can only get your money if you
trade with me voluntarily. 

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If I hire you for mutually 
agreed upon benefits, you can 

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quit at any time. 
Give me 40% of your income to 

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fund a welfare state which never
achieved its stated goals, or 

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I'll have the police put you in 
jail and shoot you if you 

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resist. 
Which sounds more selfish or 

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individualistic? 
If socialists really cared about

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the community, they would look 
into how Singapore went from 

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rags to riches by adopting more 
free market policies, How 

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billions of people in China and 
India, China since 1979, India 

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since 1991 have been lifted from
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more free trade and more rights 
to voluntarily contract with 

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corporations who train people in
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productive. 
Advocates of democracy associate

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democratic governments with the 
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Therefore, it is the government 
that represents people's 

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preferences. 
Of course, this is backwards. 

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The voluntary sector, where 
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contract, represents us better 
than a state which has the right

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to impose unilateral obligations
on hundreds of millions of 

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strangers by legal Fiat. 
What does this have to do with 

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destroying nature? 
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socialist entity in society 
because it's democratic, not 

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private, socialists must 
logically take blame for all the

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destruction of government wars 
from Oliver Cromwell to the 

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American Civil War to the First 
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War, along with mass murder 
campaigns being waged today in 

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the Middle East and Eastern 
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All societies use natural 
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Capitalism rewards people who 
plant trees in the present and 

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conserve them in hopes of 
increasing the asset value for 

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future selling. 
Notice how socialists switch 

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between seeing private property 
as a parasitic construct and 

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also the very thing that needs 
protecting. 

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When Black Lives Matter riots, 
destroy neighborhoods which 

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people live in, loot stores 
where people shop food, and 

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destroy investment which took a 
century to erect, the socialist 

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tells us it's just property, get
over it. 

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But when it comes to the need 
for the state to tax or regulate

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property, those trillions of 
dollars property are very 

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valuable and the state must 
seize them for the well-being of

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the masses. 
When socialists say we want 

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trillions for schools, 
healthcare, housing, 

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infrastructure, abortion 
clinics, are they talking about 

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trillions of humans or the 
importance of property? 

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Consider the contempt socialists
have for the masses. 

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First they take their income by 
threat of force via taxation, 

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then tax the property people 
own, then deny working parents 

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school choice, then complain 
that the world uses too many 

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resources, even when these very 
resources allow the average 

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person today to live a life of 
luxury most kings and Queens of 

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the past never could have 
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The chart below from Human 
Progress shows that resources 

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become more abundant over time 
because capitalists invest in 

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looking for new alternatives of 
how to achieve people's desire 

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to ends. 
Between 1980 and 2017, the time 

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price, amount of time one person
has to work to acquire access to

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a certain product or service has
drastically decreased thanks to 

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capitalism. 
It's amazing how a society that 

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proudly boasts never hit a woman
and has only enslaved men in 

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military conscription to die in 
wars based on lies could be 

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accused of misogyny. 
Since socialists believe 

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disparities between groups are 
proof of discrimination, here 

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are a few statistics from 
Progressive myths by Doctor 

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Michael Humor. 
Males make up only 50% of the 

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population, but 95.5% of police 
shooting victims. 

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The gender pay gap statistics do
not control for occupation or 

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other relevant factors. 
In other words, they are not in 

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fact about the same work or 
equal work. 

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Rather, almost all the gap is 
due to men and women doing 

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different work. 
The men and women have different

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jobs. 
Of course there's going to be a 

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disparity in the income. 
Men suffer over 90% of all 

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workplace deaths in America each
year. 

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If socialists want to empower 
the average person, that is only

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done by decriminalizing all 
economic activity between 

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consenting adults and increasing
each person's capacity to make 

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the most of their talents in a 
social setting. 

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Thanks to everyone for watching 
Keith Knight, Don't Tread on 

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Anyone, and the Libertarian 
Institute.