Conza

• Your professors generally don’t know what you’re talking about
• You realize that bathroom lines in stadiums are a result of prices being too low
• Being in line for anything makes you think of the Soviet Union
• You extend that analysis to include traffic jams
• You know the other person’s argument better than the other person
• You incorporate malinvestment into conversations
• You get paid, and feel it is utterly worthless because the currency didn’t originate in the market
• You can pick Stephan Kinsella, Jeffrey Tucker, Peter Klein and Joe Salerno out of a lineup
• You know Margit von Mises’ pet name for her husband
• You’re on mises.org at 2:30am
• You realise markets don’t fail, only governments do
• You start using terms like “time-preference” in everyday conversations
• You get annoyed when someone implies that the value of something is not subjective, as in “this house is selling below its true value.”
• You know what the words a priori, methodenstreit, and verstehen mean
• You tend to disagree with everyone in a conversation about politics or economics
• Ron Paul talks about something besides war and still makes sense to you
• Economists who wear bow ties have more credibility in your eyes
• Whenever you hear the acronym PDA you immediately think of Private Defence Agency and not Personal Digital Assistant
• Kids talk about learning the ABC’s and you think they are a little young to understand the Austrian Business Cycle
• You search the term Hayek on the internet and are aghast to find pictures of an attractive, female celebrity
• You don’t understand what “wasting your time” means since values are subjective
• Your girlfriend says that you treat her like property and you think “private or public?”
• During the presidential campaigns, you knew Obama’s economic policies and their consequences better than Obama’s supporters
• You roll your eyes every time you see someone talk about inflation as an increase in prices
• You can spot a Broken Window Fallacy without even breaking a mental sweat
• Whenever some human want isn’t being met, the first question that comes to your mind is, “What’s government doing to block the market from providing that?”
• You take inordinate amounts of delight in wearing your Rothbard “Enemy of the State” t-shirt in front of statist friends
• You see your neighborhoods shitty public roads, and you know the free market could do a better job
• You truly appreciate the beauty and mystique of the free market and voluntary exchange
• You consider reading and buying books, an investment
• You can’t participate in a mock United Nations without detailing how the resolution, regardless of its specific content, will have unintended consequences and most likely cartelize X industry
• You realize the irony of Andrew Jackson on a central bank note
• You laugh real hard at people trying to use labour statistics that they think ”prove” the middle class is shrinking or the poor are getting poorer
• Someone says you need a little government you immediately think “yeah, like I need cancer.”

(Source: mises.org)