How The State Makes Us Poorer | Max Hillebrand

<p>"We are taught that the state builds our economy, but the reality is that every act of intervention is an act of wealth destruction." </p>
<p>Max Hillebrand joins the show to tear down the Keynesian fallacies that keep us in a cycle of manufactured poverty and systemic theft. We go deep into the Austrian framework to explain why privacy isn't just a tech feature, it is the bedrock of a free economy. </p>
<p>We discuss:\ </p>
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<li>The Theft Trap: Why taxation and inflation are definitionally coercion, and how they silently redistribute wealth from the productive to the state. \</li>
<li>The Broken Window Fallacy: Why building things we don’t need and destroying wealth through war is the ultimate economic delusion. \</li>
<li>The Consumption Trap: How state-manipulated metrics like GDP force us to prioritise over-consumption over the savings required for actual prosperity. \</li>
<li>The Minimum Wage Fallacy: A practical breakdown of why state interventions inevitably price the most vulnerable workers out of the market. \</li>
<li>The Cypherpunk Solution: Why increasing the cost of state attack and decreasing the cost of private defense is our only path to an unstoppable, parallel economy.</li>
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