WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:06.020 Hey, Lurkin Rose here on a windy mountaintop. I'm gonna see if I can shelter this microphone from the wind 00:06.600 --> 00:09.260 So it isn't rumbly-bumbly like last time 00:10.020 --> 00:10.660 so 00:11.420 --> 00:12.320 somebody asked 00:13.000 --> 00:15.420 Facebook YouTube I forget where maybe both 00:16.160 --> 00:18.740 Well, how does property work under anarchy? 00:20.240 --> 00:28.820 And it's as usual there are several levels of weirdness under anarchy just means if we don't have a giant ruling class 00:29.420 --> 00:36.880 So if we don't have literally the biggest thief in the history of the world that steals more property than anybody else combined by a 00:36.880 --> 00:38.060 Factor of like a zillion 00:38.580 --> 00:40.580 how would property ownership work and 00:41.780 --> 00:46.980 To be a little bit sympathetic the the question comes from that 00:46.980 --> 00:49.940 Uncertainty that's just built into reality 00:49.940 --> 00:58.620 What if I'm there and I built my little homestead somewhere in a gang of ten like immoral violent thugs comes and decides to take it by force 00:59.400 --> 01:02.880 You're probably gonna lose you might die. You'll probably lose your property 01:04.200 --> 01:12.340 What they want government to be is a magic force that supersedes reality and uncertainty and 01:12.340 --> 01:13.740 humanity and 01:13.740 --> 01:16.180 malice and and 01:16.180 --> 01:17.760 Just magically protects people 01:18.380 --> 01:22.640 in spite of the fact that they already know that it isn't that like if 01:23.260 --> 01:31.420 You're out in the wild and ten violent thugs that cost you is the existence of politicians somewhere gonna magically make them stop 01:32.260 --> 01:34.380 No, it already doesn't do that 01:34.940 --> 01:41.080 Now if you get away from them and get home is that gang of thugs gonna rob you if you own property? 01:41.600 --> 01:47.240 Yeah, it's gonna rob you if you have income that they know about. Yeah, is it gonna rob you if you spend money anywhere? Yeah 01:49.140 --> 01:52.140 Why are you advocating the biggest thief in the world? 01:52.960 --> 01:57.840 Uh because in order to protect property rights, that's kind of bonkers and silly 01:59.140 --> 02:03.080 But it comes from that notion that they want an all-powerful 02:03.580 --> 02:06.740 Superhuman entity to guarantee that the good guys win 02:06.740 --> 02:14.140 Which as I've said before if there was such a thing. Yeah, I'd be all in favor of that. There isn't this is reality 02:14.800 --> 02:19.020 but the way they talk they'll they'll come up with scenarios like well 02:19.580 --> 02:24.440 What if there's like a roving gang of thugs that just that has no respect for property? 02:25.040 --> 02:33.260 You mean like government no other roving thugs that have no respect for property then it comes down to a contest of violence and 02:34.660 --> 02:36.140 That's just a truism 02:36.780 --> 02:37.300 duh 02:37.860 --> 02:42.240 It's a truism in any setting in any country in any place in any time 02:42.780 --> 02:46.860 Now as it happens now we live in a time where lots and lots of people actually 02:47.360 --> 02:51.480 Comprehend at least at a basic level and respect the concept of property, okay? 02:51.620 --> 02:56.980 That's things yours me beating you up and stealing it would not be good. That would be bad. So I'm not gonna do that 02:58.060 --> 03:03.660 Sounds pretty basic, but for a huge amount of human history that wasn't actually the norm 03:04.100 --> 03:05.100 It might be well 03:05.100 --> 03:09.240 I don't steal my brother's stuff, but that tribe over there if we can kill them and take their stuff 03:09.240 --> 03:10.040 That's perfectly fine 03:10.040 --> 03:18.520 Like a lot of human history is that even without government and then government comes along and commits way more thuggery and theft than everybody else 03:18.520 --> 03:24.480 But what people want is a guarantee that nasty people can't possibly rob innocent people 03:25.520 --> 03:27.540 There is no such a guarantee 03:28.280 --> 03:31.820 There is however a guarantee that nasty people will 03:32.660 --> 03:37.280 Absolutely rob innocent people over and over and over again, and that's called government 03:37.280 --> 03:42.680 It guarantees there will be mass theft constantly over and over again 03:42.680 --> 03:43.140 and 03:44.320 --> 03:50.860 Doesn't guarantee you'll be protected from other thieves either so it just adds a gigantic thief the biggest thief in the world 03:51.780 --> 03:56.840 But so that the question is interesting not so much in the answer because the answer is 03:56.840 --> 04:00.640 Kind of obvious. How does property work if you build something? 04:00.840 --> 04:06.180 It's rightfully yours if other people don't recognize it as being rightfully yours and try to take it by force 04:06.180 --> 04:11.680 You might have to defend it by force or if you think you're gonna lose you might have to abandon it and run away 04:11.680 --> 04:16.220 Just not that you're morally obligated to that's just a description of reality 04:16.960 --> 04:23.040 But people want this magical thing called authority to outrank reality and make reality not happen 04:23.040 --> 04:30.540 And the fact that we have centuries and centuries of direct evidence of government doing the exact opposite 04:31.180 --> 04:32.680 From protecting property 04:33.520 --> 04:39.100 Doesn't seem to phase these people from thinking well, this is why we need government. Well, is it the biggest thief in the world? 04:39.260 --> 04:43.300 Well, yeah, but otherwise somebody might rob you do other people rob you anyway 04:43.300 --> 04:50.180 Well, yeah, but every once in a while the cops catch one of them and then what happens do they get put in a cage and given 04:51.040 --> 04:52.840 Stolen loot that government stole 04:53.580 --> 04:55.160 They get free room and board 04:55.160 --> 05:01.780 So now if a thief gets caught by government they get free room and board paid for by money stolen from you 05:01.780 --> 05:04.240 You really think that's how you preserve property rights 05:05.340 --> 05:05.900 but 05:06.620 --> 05:13.800 So the practical just it's not even like here's my sophisticated solution to the problem. It's just a description of reality 05:14.640 --> 05:21.420 That if the thugs are bigger and stronger than the decent people decent people are probably getting robbed and bullied and 05:21.420 --> 05:25.960 Decent people need to figure out how to organize and forcibly defend against thugs. That's just 05:26.660 --> 05:29.880 That's just a description of reality. It's not a suggestion 05:31.820 --> 05:40.100 It's I mean it obviously demonstrates why we need more and more people to understand and respect the concept of self ownership and property and all that 05:41.220 --> 05:47.100 Which is mutually exclusive to believing in and respecting government and political authority 05:49.420 --> 05:55.020 But besides just describing a reality everybody knows which isn't even an answer like an anarchy 05:55.020 --> 05:58.120 How will property work that you already know the answer to that? 05:58.680 --> 06:03.860 If there's enough good people that respect property and will defend against thugs works just fine 06:03.860 --> 06:09.260 If there's three people who respect property and a hundred people who don't those three are in deep shit 06:09.260 --> 06:11.340 They might want to run off and hide some 06:12.160 --> 06:13.380 make a tiny little 06:13.980 --> 06:14.740 community and 06:15.560 --> 06:17.560 Learn how to fend off 06:18.320 --> 06:18.880 thieves 06:20.340 --> 06:23.700 But in addition to just describing the reality of the situation 06:23.700 --> 06:29.920 I wanted to make this video to point out the weird mentality that makes people ask such things 06:30.760 --> 06:36.220 It's it really is as silly as saying well if if we don't have Santa Claus. How is Christmas gonna work? 06:37.160 --> 06:39.660 I'm sorry if this is a spoiler for anybody, but 06:40.280 --> 06:41.980 We don't have Santa Claus 06:42.840 --> 06:46.760 Whether Christmas is gonna work or not doesn't change that 06:46.760 --> 06:54.340 Oh, but what if some good kids don't get any any presents some good kids don't get any presents and Santa Claus doesn't exist 06:55.360 --> 07:01.480 Like but we need Santa Claus doesn't matter how much you think we need Santa Claus. He doesn't exist 07:02.620 --> 07:07.680 So the idea like that it's like a mental crutch for people 07:07.680 --> 07:13.980 Like I'm not sure I'd feel all that secure in the world without this magical mythical thing protecting me 07:13.980 --> 07:19.100 So I'm gonna advocate this magical mythical thing protecting me. Well, does it protect you? Well, no 07:20.340 --> 07:22.740 Does it rob you more than everybody else? Yeah 07:23.980 --> 07:26.120 So why are you clinging to that? 07:26.360 --> 07:32.220 Why don't you just let go and accept the fact that you live in a world of uncertainty with no guarantees? 07:32.840 --> 07:39.380 Somebody might murder you today. Somebody might murder me today. I'm pretty easy to find and pretty easy to kill 07:39.380 --> 07:43.700 I'm not bulletproof same as true of you same as true of almost everybody 07:44.860 --> 07:46.220 If you want some 07:46.220 --> 07:48.320 Guarantee that that's not gonna happen 07:48.320 --> 07:52.480 You're gonna be wanting forever if you want some guarantee nobody's gonna rob you 07:52.480 --> 07:57.880 You're gonna be wanting forever if you want some guarantee that you can have property rights and nobody will violate them 07:57.880 --> 07:59.940 You're gonna be wanting that forever 07:59.940 --> 08:06.300 The thing that matters to make that happen is the mentality in the belief system of the people around you 08:07.100 --> 08:12.900 And if the people around you believe in government your property rights are already doomed yourself ownership is already doomed 08:12.900 --> 08:15.880 They all think they have the right to rob you by way of government and 08:17.540 --> 08:19.880 The weirdest thing is you thinking well 08:19.880 --> 08:26.300 We better cling to that government thing because at least they have a process if somebody like steals my property 08:26.300 --> 08:30.560 I can go to them and file a report and they won't do anything and 08:31.200 --> 08:38.240 In the meantime, I'm literally being robbed to pay them to not do anything and being robbed to pay them to do 08:38.240 --> 08:40.260 All sorts of evil grab a warmongering 08:41.040 --> 08:45.260 Because they're the biggest thief in the world, but it really shows the inherent 08:46.660 --> 08:52.140 Immaturity of statism and the fact that it's the mentality of children 08:52.800 --> 08:56.360 But if mommy isn't here, how will mommy isn't here? 08:57.380 --> 09:01.620 Daddy isn't here. There's just us you and me and lots of other people 09:02.180 --> 09:05.520 That's all there is. That's the top and you 09:06.260 --> 09:07.420 growing up in this 09:08.500 --> 09:13.720 infantile mentality and wanting to be wanting there to be some all-powerful good guy 09:14.740 --> 09:19.100 To make sure bad things don't happen. That's delusional. It's ridiculous 09:19.100 --> 09:23.020 If you want to make sure bad things don't happen 09:23.020 --> 09:29.120 You should probably do things so that you can stop bad things from happening 09:29.120 --> 09:34.540 And you should probably get to know some people who aren't advocating bad things and robbery and theft 09:34.540 --> 09:39.040 You should probably figure out you're at the top and if there are some people 09:39.580 --> 09:41.220 Capable of thuggery and theft 09:41.940 --> 09:46.900 If there are nasty people out there willing to do that there should probably be some good people out here 09:49.920 --> 09:53.340 willing to use force to stop them from committing theft and 09:55.580 --> 10:00.760 It's weird how many people and this is particularly true of the left. I'll just pick on them for a little bit 10:01.480 --> 10:06.440 Well, I would never think of owning a gun or using force. Now. Who's gonna protect me? 10:07.780 --> 10:13.420 You if you're not even gonna protect yourself or the people around you. Why the hell should anybody protect you? 10:13.720 --> 10:17.880 I mean, I still would even if you're disarmed if I happen to be there and somebody's robbing you 10:17.880 --> 10:19.100 I'm gonna try to stop them 10:20.360 --> 10:24.780 But that childish mentality of like it can't be on me 10:24.780 --> 10:28.040 It can't be on us. We're just mere mortals 10:28.040 --> 10:35.320 We need an authority to protect us and to protect our property rights and to make sure nothing bad ever happens 10:35.320 --> 10:41.020 So we're gonna keep advocating this thing that makes more bad things happen than anything else in the history of the world 10:41.020 --> 10:42.780 So let me turn the question around on you 10:44.660 --> 10:47.700 If you don't want to be robbed if you believe in property ownership 10:48.500 --> 10:55.020 First of all, what would you do in the absence of a ruling class to try to stop yourself from being robbed? 10:55.540 --> 10:56.340 second of all 10:57.040 --> 11:04.140 Why do you think it would help the situation to have a group of people that has societal permission? 11:04.900 --> 11:05.880 to rob you 11:07.640 --> 11:12.920 How do you think that helps to protect your property rights?