Well, not quite. But this post’s title is based on a little linguistic joke passed on to me by Paul Vahur. He informs me that the word “hallitus” means “government” in Finnish, but in Estonian it means “mold”. (Estonian and Finnish are similar languages like German and Swedish are.)
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired 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), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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I guess government is what you get when society goes stale