An Evening with Tom Woods | Thomas E. Woods. Jr.

[CAngelful]

The more I listen to you Tom Woods, the more I love what you say and I gotta have more.

[soapbxprod]

Oh God in Heaven- Dr. Woods- you are the finest mind on the face of the earth. I'm weeping with joy for the third time... This is the most profound address that I have ever heard. Bless YOU!

[pretorious]

Tom is brilliantly logical and painfully honest. He's the exact opposite of the lunatics in charge of the US now.

[Charlesperalo]

The Walter Block joke I love how the entire audience knows what he's joking about. Yet 99% of Americans don't know Walter Block and probably 90% don't know how to pay chess.

[loganmillslagle]

Absolutely brilliant I wish everyone in the world could see this just once

[evokelabs]

It got very powerful at the end there. Thank you Mises for all your great work and I take what many you had to say too heart.

[TauseefHisbani]

Defending the undefendable is one of those books that I read and then I walk over to the wall banging my head against it because it is like drinking fresh water in the desert.

[cheesechoker]

Tom Woods is always an entertaining speaker, but the section about his personal feelings on the Gulf War was actually quite moving. I'm going to check out "We Who Dared to Say No to War".

[Ethercruiser]

Interesting concepts:
1) The Law of Association, &
2.) Society can function without central direction.

[CurtHowland]

57:40 That happened to me a few years ago. I walked into a grocery store and stood there, and it just washed over me: The entire cuisine of the WORLD is at my fingertips, I can have ANYTHING!
Wow.

[KeeganIdler]

To make a ham sandwich from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

[bluesparrowfish]

8:00 he is right i am a mises hermit, over one year and im still on the audio section. went from audio mesis dailys to lectures, now im on the books.. all most finished with every thing rothbard on audio

[ikester]

@Charlesperalo That book was my first introduction to Dr. Block many years ago. I'm very glad to have been able to meet him a couple of times at Mises. He is an amazingly funny and generous man, but don't be on the wrong side of him in a debate!

[VictorLepanto]

Yes. Precisely my point, thank you for agreeing w/ me. I'd remind you that just because something is simple, doesn't mean it is false. 2+2=4 is simple, it is also true. That is how it is w/ the greatest truths, they are simple but difficult to live.

[BinanceUSD]

Why the 11 dislikes?? Tom is so nice.

[godofallbums]

you need to come back to Seattle.last time you were here i didn't know who you were, you deserved more rock star

[Elmgren]

Here in Sweden, an organisation hands out an annual "Lenin prize" to authors, musicians and what have you. Not a single critical word about this in the media. It's reported like any other award.

[TomWoodsTV]

For MotoWanderer (for some reason it's not letting me respond to specific comments), I recommended Googling George Reisman and workplace safety for the logic of the argument.

[TeBeAyennounced]

Blech. Skeeze bar. I need to find out where this place is in Auburn. I'm upset I didn't hear about this till now.

[MotoWanderer]

Tom Woods may be one the most entertaining and bright public speakers of our time, and although right on many issues, he tends to beat everyone with the same stick and the same mistrust. For example, when he talks about OSHA, he only mentions fatality rate, but he never mentions injury rates. OSHA main job is preventing and reducing work related injuries. Free market is great but no business, however free, will spend 1 cent more than it can get away with on safety equipment.

Maybe Mr. Woods needs to visit a few third world countries to see the condition of workplaces (American Corporations) and then compare them to the very same inside the United States. Free market has never provided safety for the workers, because in the eyes of the number crunchers, people are expendable. Now you may argue that what business would want to lose a worker instead of buying PPE? But the reality is that they do it all the time. A factory button pusher can be replaced in a matter of minutes. 

Consumer and worker protection laws did not come about because the government wanted it, majority of them got in place in spite of what government thought of them. 

Now is OSHA a perfect agency? You'd be a fool to call it that but to relegate it to a bunch of hacks who don't know anything is just as foolish. OSHA is not working not because it's unnecessary, it is crippled because of many factors and free market argument is not one of them.

You can read the excellent paper "The OSHA mission found and lost" by Khalid Elhassan to learn more.