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Liberty Tree

Maybe all ideologies suffer from some key defect that its adherents are generally unable to see. What I see is a Liberty Tree - and their are different branches - some place more weight on some things than on others or make certain assumptions that others do not or do not weigh as heavily. Walking through the proverbial forest to get to Ancapistan or Locketowne, people may take different paths, have differing life experiences, and different amounts of time needed to deal with how they weight different issues.


For example, I've been going through Rothbard's critique of Georgist ideals and one of the issues he pointed out was that availability of land didn't seem to enrich denizens in China. He seemed to have left out the communist or cultural components of China or of 3rd world countries though, but perhaps when he wrote the paper conditions were different.

Let's consider the plight of denizens of some random rain forest. Plenty of access to the land, and yet they still can't buy or build a bulldozer perhaps. What this