When you buy a lottery ticket and the clerk tells you, “Good luck!,” what exactly does he mean? Surely he is not telling this to you only. He says it to all customers. Does he wish that all of them win? Surely that’s not what they wish.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), and International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020).
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