One man will carry two buckets of water for his own use, Two men will carry one for their joint use; Three men will carry none for anybody's use.
My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.
As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in.
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
When everybody is supposed to pay, nobody seems to get the bill.
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.
The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.
Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
