Manuel Lora

Austro-libertarian market anarchist, photographer, husband & father, tech geek.

Manuel Lora has written 34 radical posts for the Libertarian Standard.

The Market Is Awesome. News At 11.

by Manuel Lora August 29, 2011

Yesterday I found myself on the grocery store parking lot with a dead car battery, a trunk full of perishable and a toddler in the back seat. The following times/events are taken from my phone’s history. 10:03am – Called my wife to come get us. 10:05am – Called roadside to get a jump. 10:24am – [...]

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IP As Intellectual Laziness, Skewed Business Models

by Manuel Lora May 23, 2011

We have heard it said that IP causes people to “rest on their laurels.” What this means is that intellectual property causes entrepreneurial laziness in at least two ways. The first, and the one that is often mentioned in IP abolitionist circles is that there is less pressure for the original innovator to continue to [...]

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The Good In American Culture

by Manuel Lora March 17, 2011

Easily 99% of what American libertarians talk about is the demise of the country, with countless daily examples of new regulations, and the devastating results of those regulations. The US is, after all, in what to many appear to be an accelerating rate of decay compared to other countries around the world. The endless complaining [...]

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Distill THIS! (or: How The State Gives Small-Scale Distilleries Nightmares)

by Manuel Lora February 15, 2011

A friend shares the following story: I was talking with a buddy of mine last night: a lawyer currently working for the state, getting his MBA on the side. He’s been researching the possibility of setting up a distillery firm, and we talked about it for close to an hour. Very interesting stuff, and he’s [...]

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“Chaotic lack of rules”

by Manuel Lora February 10, 2011

Just when I thought I had heard/read it all, comes this gem out of NYC: Efforts to tame a lawless bus industry that has left Chinatown like the “Wild West” have been introduced by neighborhood politicians. The move, which would force buses traveling between New York and other cities to have a permit to operate, [...]

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What Libertarians Should Know When Debating Statists

by Manuel Lora February 9, 2011

Anthony Gregory makes a quick list of “talking points” that libertarians should know rather well when engaging in argumentation with statists. Here it is: The law of comparative advantage Broken window Socialism vs. universability The state cannot be perfectly egalitarian — someone calls the shots If EVEN the US government does X, is there any [...]

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The Power To Classify Is The Power To Destroy

by Manuel Lora February 3, 2011

The state has a fetish for categorizing and classifying things, as if the label you “officially” stick on things changes reality. Yet that classification has legislative teeth. Lately I have become more aware of this destructive power. Not because it comes from the state–I am already used to that, but because often times government agencies, [...]

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