Reddit reviews Capitalism and the Historians

I started out by writing one of those long, line-by-line response comments, but who wants to read that?

Instead, I'll try to get the heart of the subject. I'll start with a quote by arch-libertarian Murray Rothbard.

> It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

What I'm seeing in this post is a loud, vociferous opinion about the economics of libertarianism when you have clearly only had a surface-level encounter with the ideology. Heck, you seem to only have a surface-level acquaintance with your own ideology.

Some books for you to look at:

• Why Government Doesn't Work, by Harry Browne
  
• The Myth of the Robber Barons, by Burt Folsom
  
• Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
  
• Capitalism and the Historians, by F.A. Hayek
  
• The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
  
• The Privatization of Roads and Highways, by Walter Block
  
  Note how these are available as free downloads. Most of us don't believe in "intellectual property," so that subject might be of interest to you in Against Intellectual Monopoly.
  
  The short version is this: No, we're not out to get you. Yes, we see many of your sacred cows as expendable in the pursuit of human liberty. Yes, we've thought long and hard about this (for a couple hundred years actually), and No, this isn't just some scam to help the Koch brothers.
  
  I'm not sure what part of your view I'm supposed to be changing here, but you need to know a lot more about your own position and the one you're attacking first, so enjoy the reading list.