The Freeman's Max Borders: Libertarians Should Be More Optimistic About the Future

Bitcoin and other disruptive technologies are having an important impact on developing countries.

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The Freeman's Max Borders: Libertarians Should Be More Optimistic About the Future

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"Optimism is a much better driver than living in a sort of state of fear," says Freeman editor Max Borders. He sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to talk about techno-optimism and the role of disruptive technologies in developing countries. 

About 7 minutes

Music by Podington Bear.

Produced by Alex Manning. Shot by Paul Detrick and Meredith Bragg.

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[toolkien]

It's exceedingly difficult to be optimistic about the future when we have 100 years of economic, fiscal, and monetary corrections ahead of us. I don't give a shit about technologies of the future, or about climate change this or that. We have tens of TRILLIONS of dollars misallocated, and the inevitable corrections aren't going to come cheaply. I had some hope that, if we started right away (circa 2003, when I lost my innocence) we might be able to mitigate the pain. All we've done nothing but ADD trillions more to the pile. Whatever the gizmos that might exist 50 years from now, or what the temperature is going to be outside 75 years from only matters once we've paid the HUGE cost for a century of socialism that has left nearly everyone ignorant of economic cause and effect.

[NotAnotherSkippy]

Does any of that really matter as long as you can get high?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I thought this was gonna be an article on immigration. Max Borders is a hilarious name for a libertarian.

[JeremyR]

Oh sure, developing countries can only improve.

But I think 1st world countries, or at least Western ones, will only decline due to hordes of invading cultures wrecking both the economy and culture.

Sharia law is inevitable in Europe and parts of the US...

[N]

I'm about 90% sure this guy is related to RIFF RAFF

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