According to an article in Variety magazine, megastars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are among the possibilities for the lead roles in a new movie version of Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged. Says the article,
Economist and philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe made similar comments about the Social Security system. For Hoppe, subsidies for sickness or disability lead to more sickness and pain, discourage work, individual effort and solidarity and foster a hedonistic society whose members’ main goal is to live off of everyone else.
Several years ago, perhaps during the mad cow scare, it became something of a trial to get beef at a restaurant that was properly cooked. To get anything less than well done, you had to order rare, and do so clearly and emphatically. I always suspected that this problem—which seems to have abatted—had something to do with health inspectors, or regulators, or some government warning of some such.
But even so, it is a shock to learn the extent to which health inspectors are increasingly regulating what is served at restaurants.
I don’t know how much of this is due to genuine disapproval of his policies, and how much is due to, “We really like The Police.” In any event, click on “Every Breath You Take” to see business geeks being surprisingly clever.
The reaction to my article on the United Automobile Workers and GM , confirms how many people—namely, “liberals,” “moderates,” socialists, communists, syndicalists, “mutualists” and others—believe that businessmen and capitalists are the enemy, and labor unions and labor legislation, the friend, of wage earners. This is an enormous error, with devastating consequences.
Jane Jacobs (born 1916), author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died today. Obituaries will invariably describe her views in a way that suggest she made a case against market economics.
