Thank you both for the help in teaching me something. :)I too wonder what some of the great libertarian minds of the past would say if they saw all this. I assume they would be filled with the same overwhelming delight I was when I stumbled upon this amazing place. The black market is the only thing supplying the demand for a free market as of right now, and thanks to bitcoin I suppose that almost any industry could participate outside of state control. Take Wikispeed for example, the first car manufacturer to accept bitcoins as payment for automobiles that they build from scratch. If they could manage to pull that off anonymously, then they could operate solely in the black market. It seems that with the right technology maybe we can all be independent contractors after all. It makes my head spin thinking about what the world will look like in the next 10 or 20 years. As far as the so called "libertarian socialists", if such an oxymoron is even possible, I am even more confused than you are. Their attempts to make life "equal" for everyone leave no motivation for those who come up with the good ideas. If they want to start a business and hire unqualified and incompetent people to run the show then by all means let them, but there's no way to give equality to everyone without using force and coercion to steal money.