Today I am pleased to present three new chapters from The Machinery of Freedom all at once. The pool of translators has remained small but very productive, and I am now quite heavily loaded with editing work that can no longer be delegated to anyone.

In the chapter “Robin Hood Will Sell You Out”, Friedman demonstrates some non-obvious mechanisms of how welfare systems, formally created to help the poor, de facto redistribute money in favor of the rich. He also states that such government behavior is not a system error, but the system itself.

In the chapter “The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get Richer”, the title is telling enough to understand what it is about. It explains why the impoverishment of the working class, as Marx dreamed, does not occur in a free market, but instead there is a movement toward general prosperity.

Finally, in the chapter “Monopolies I. How to Lose Your Shirt”, Friedman vividly describes how miserable the fate of monopolies is in a free market, and how miserable the fate of those is who are unlucky enough to deal with government monopolies.

On this wonderful holiday, US Independence Day, enjoy the classics of anarcho-capitalist propaganda! By the way, hello to everyone who came via a tip from the Classical Liberal channel; I am very glad to have you, make yourselves comfortable.

I have posted the translation of the short fourth chapter The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman. So far, the process is funded only by Bitarch, but you have the opportunity to add your own name to the acknowledgments section when preparing the final text, which I will definitely do. I would be glad to receive your donations to pay for the translation to a separate wallet: 1AFkD2bazCs5YZBBrSD7HsRMWLmRbg6QBo

I also invite everyone interested to write their reviews of the book. I would like to attach the most insightful ones to the translated text. Preferably, of course, not in the “read it – liked it” format, but of a more review-analytical nature.

I’ve posted the second chapter of David Friedman’s “The Machinery of Freedom”; it’s quite short. The third was posted a couple of months ago, and the fourth is currently being translated. In short, the process has started.

Once we finish the first part, I will polish the posted material to bring it to a consistent style and create an epub. I will do the same with the remaining parts.

So far, one translator has actively joined the project, and two more are getting ready while clearing other tasks. If you feel capable of taking on this work, let’s collaborate. The estimated payment is 400 rubles per standard page of source text (1,800 characters including spaces).

I was distracted from the translation for quite a while, but I have recently returned to it. I present to you the first chapter of David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom – In Defense of Property.

I hope I have enough momentum to continue the work for some time, but the best way to influence my priorities is to financially support those of my endeavors that are most interesting to you. For those who wish to sponsor the translation of The Machinery of Freedom specifically, rather than just abstractly support the project as a whole, I have set up a separate bitcoin wallet: 1AFkD2bazCs5YZBBrSD7HsRMWLmRbg6QBo

As for those who prefer to use a lightning bot in Telegram for donations, you can simply specify the purpose of the payment in the comment.

I would also be incredibly happy if you joined the translation work. It is very simple: go to the section where the original book is posted, choose any chapter that no one has taken on yet — and go for it.