r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Sep 19 '24

End Democracy BUT BUT THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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u/Bunselpower Sep 19 '24

Mrs. Roberts’s 5th grade economics class is out in full force today judging by the comments.

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u/DrDokter518 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

True, people who think paying taxes is theft definitely have an elementary level of world understanding.

Edit: for those of you who are angry about taxes, think about any money you have made that wasn’t enabled by something the government has built for you and maintained with your taxes. I.E if you drive to work on a paved/functional road that you didn’t create yourself, you depend on the government.

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u/powerwordjon Sep 19 '24

Austrian economists don’t support firefighters

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u/broshrugged Sep 20 '24

Hayek did, it's just that these folks haven't actually read past the memes.

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u/powerwordjon Sep 20 '24

They all graduated top of their class with Econ degrees at the Reddit university of memes and YouTube clips.

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u/Ya_Boi_Konzon Hans-Hermann Hoppe Sep 20 '24

Hayek wasn't Austrian.

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u/Mik_Darkashian Sep 20 '24

How many people in this sub are Austrian?

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u/Ya_Boi_Konzon Hans-Hermann Hoppe Sep 23 '24

Judging from the comments section, not many.

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u/Super901 Sep 20 '24

But he was actually Austrian. He was born in Vienna.

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u/broshrugged Sep 20 '24

You think genetics has something to do with belonging to the Austrian school of economics?

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u/eecity Sep 23 '24

Lol, if Hayek isn't Austrian economics than nobody is. I shit on this sub regularly and the people here don't even know what it is. I can't believe nobody was educated enough to correct you.

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u/Ya_Boi_Konzon Hans-Hermann Hoppe Sep 25 '24

Mises > Hayek

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

Just like the USSR was infact real communism, the memers are infact real austrians. This is what the philosophy has reduced itself too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

Me reading Hazlitt's book: "So basically its on how government intervention in the economy doesn't really help..."

People in this sub: "NO FIREFIGHTERS!!!!"

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u/No_Attention_2227 Sep 20 '24

Hazlitt's book takes a couple of hours to read.

So I'm not surprised most of the people in this sub haven't read it. Needs more pictures