From our freedom to use or transform our private property emerges the freedom to trade it with anyone we choose. This freedom to trade inadvertently transforms mankind into a global supercomputer where private sector companies are always engaged in the process of economic competition which motivates companies to innovate and copy the innovations of competitors.
One of the problems with trying to police “hate” is that it gives the Thought Police an incentive to persecute their fellow citizens, and if they do not find a sufficient number of haters lurking in their midst, they invent them. There is now an entire sector of “experts” dedicated to eradicating hate, and it seems they are now concerned that there may not be enough hate to sustain their hate-finding activities.
The US regime can entice “cooperation” from tech companies with enough taxpayer money and threats of regulation.
Once reserved to actual American servicemen, Republicans now seek taxpayer funded benefits for Americans who fight for Israel.
The United Kingdom’s economic deceleration is conventionally attributed to fiscal consolidation, anaemic productivity growth, and the supply-side dislocations that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These are real constraints. But treating them as primary causes rather than downstream symptoms is a misdiagnosis—and an increasingly costly one.
[Cricket Versus Republicanism and Other Essays by David Stove (Quakers Hill Press. 2013; 166 pp.)]
Many who do not understand markets, the division of labor, production, exchange, and profit—whether willingly or unwillingly—see no justification for unequal wealth and income because inequality can only result from nefarious activity or random luck.
The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II.
