Todd Seavey

“One of the founding European settlements of what would become the United States, Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, first attempted communal farming on the “assumption that it was the most fitting economic arrangement for a unified religious community. Growing hungry and despairing of the experiment, however, the settlers soon switched to individual family plots, which proved far more fruitful. As the governor of the colony observed, the farmers were far more industrious in tending family plots than they were working the communal grounds. The lesson would be relearned, with a much higher body count, by communist regimes in the twentieth century after their attempts at collective farming.”
― Todd Seavey, Libertarianism For Beginners

“In reality, libertarians argue, government interferes with trade—resulting in a reduction in overall happiness—virtually every time it acts (with the possible exception of its purely defensive, rights-protecting functions). In essence, government, despite its appearance of having thousands of functions, really does only two things: forbid people from making the trades they want, and force them to make trades they don't want.”
― Todd Seavey, Libertarianism For Beginners