анонимный вопрос

I liked this question, so I’m answering it out of turn; my apologies to everyone who had to be pushed back.

Of course, there is an entire class of questions to which I do not know the answer: predicting the future.

As long as the question is “how will such-and-such type of human relationship look under ancap,” it can be answered. When the question looks like something such as “when will ancap happen in Russia?”, I fall into a stupor, because theory does not answer this; one can only guess. Whoever predicts the future best is the most clever entrepreneur, for he derives profit specifically from the uncertainty of the future.

There is also a huge number of questions to which I do not know the answer, but can find it if the question is asked. For example, “how do you comment on economist A’s statement regarding politician B’s program?” I would need to find out who A is, what he said about B, what that program is, and only then would it become clear how I can comment on it.

The same applies to questions concerning the intricacies of theory, for example, “economist C has developed a model that refutes the law of diminishing marginal utility—checkmate, Austrians!” I would have to find out what the model is and for which specific cases it works before I can formulate how the Austrians escape the check. Or I might not be able to do it; after all, this is a science, not theology, and it cannot give guarantees of a correct explanation for absolutely everything. For instance, spears are still being broken over whether Bitcoin satisfies Mises’ regression theorem or not.

And finally: no, this site and channel are not an attempt to find unanswered questions. It is an attempt to interest the general public in the topic of libertarianism and to make them realize how simple all this is, in general.