Welcome to Keith's and I don't tread on anyone and the
libertarian Institute Matt. McManus of Jacobin magazine says
Ludwig von mises was a free market, ideologue not a
hard-headed thinker. So that's the title and he's
going to make the case in the article.
However, I don't necessarily see anything wrong with being a free
market. Ideologue, a free market audio
log is someone who believes in decriminalizing all Capitalist
acts between consenting adults. Not exactly something.
That strikes me as terrible, a lot of progressives and leftist
that would like Jacobin magazine would be just strong ideologues
and not hard-headed thinkers. For example, they'll commonly
make blanket statements. That I totally agree with.
They'll say, racism is inherently bad.
It is bad to judge someone by an accident of birth.
Not by the content of Their character, that's just an
ideological claim. It's not saying, well, is racism
good or bad? Let's run some tests.
Let's have these people but really racist against those
people and then compare the results against non-racist
actions. Know they make the blanket
ideological correct statement. That racism is bad sexism.
They say, is bad, homophobia is bad slavery, bad imperialism
colonialism, they'll even say profit, or Greed.
They have no problem saying that things are inherently bad and
should not be tolerated. There's nothing wrong with being
in idea log, but the article goes on in the subheading Ludwig
von mises the influential right-wing economists thought of
himself as a sober scientific critic of socialism in reality,
he was a free market idea. Log using dressed up Dogma to
prove why workers Bow before their capitalist Masters.
So let's put Matt, McManus has thesis to the tested Ludwig.
Von mises, simply support workers bowing before capitalist
Masters, or was there a little more hard-headed thinking behind
it? Quoting from planning for
Freedom by literally, Von mises Misa says, what makes wages rise
and renders the material conditions of the wage earners
more satisfactory. Is Improvement in the
technological equipment, American wages are higher than
wages, in other countries because the capital invested per
head of the worker is greater and the plants are thereby in
the position to use the most efficient tools and machines
what is called the American way of life.
Is the result of the fact that the United States has put fewer
obstacles in the way of saving and capital accumulation then
other Is there was only one way that leads to an improvement of
the standard of living for the wage-earning masses.
The increase in the amount of capital invested he goes on in
planning for freedom to also talk about the importance of
competition. So if mises simply wanted
workers to Bow before capitalist Masters, would he be telling the
workers which process or set of rules would increase the
likelihood that workers? Would have more leverage in the
marketplace. You would think if he's a useful
idiot of the Bourgeois Z, he would keep this a secret and he
would never tell anyone so so far mr.
McManus has thesis is a little more ideological.
Not very hard. Thinking let's continue Ludwig.
Von mises wrote a book called the anti-capitalist mentality in
1956. He said capitalism is
essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction
of the needs of Of the masses. It, pours, a Horn of Plenty,
upon the common, man. It has raised the average
standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier
ages, it has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments,
which a few Generations ago, were only within the reach of a
small elite doesn't exactly sound like someone who just
wants to preserve bhujbal Z privilege.
So, what we could do is put this To the test, he says that
capitalism is about serving the masses, not just the, but one
percent well, lot of entrepreneurs who have engaged
in capitalist acts between consenting adults.
But first would be people like a Cornelius Vanderbilt and he did
this by increasing the accessibility to the common man
when it came to access for traveling through steamships and
railroads he drastically lowered the prices.
Invent these things. But what he did was appeal to
the masses, when it came to Henry Ford, he didn't invent the
car. What he did was he increase the
efficiency of the production of process of the Model, T to make
it more affordable for the Common.
Man Rockefeller did not invent oil or kerosene.
What he did was he perfected the refinery process.
Andrew Carnegie. Did this with steel, not
inventing Steel, but making it more accessible to the masses.
People like Sam Walton. Did not invent grocery stores
but he acted in such a way that made it.
So the average person had their dollar go much further than it.
Otherwise would have been because he drastically lowered,
the cost of products and services the Wright brothers.
Of course, you know, had a bicycle shop where they
reinvested their dollars into building an airplane, In
competition, with the federal government who was operating the
Langley project trying to create in airplane the Wright brothers,
of course beat them. Jeff Bezos didn't invent books
but he made books much more widely available to the masses
because he made them cheaper Steve Jobs didn't invent
computers, but he made them much more, widely accessible to the
masses Hewlett-Packard did, not invent the printer but made them
much more accessible. So you actually, We see that
there are real world examples of this Market idea.
Log that actually come into play.
So does mises believe in workers bowing to capitalist Masters.
So far, there's no real evidence of that.
I want to cite page, 280 Of Human Action me.
So says, the member of a contractual Society is free
because he serves others, only in serving himself.
Another words in a free market in a system of voluntary,
cooperation, you can't get a penny out of my pocket, unless I
voluntarily give it to you. You can't get a second of my
time, unless I freely associate with you under statism, you're
constantly up for a vote and the psychopathic ruling class can
steal four trillion dollars every year.
Like they do in America, they can conscripted you.
And to jury duty, they can conscripted you into fighting
Wars based on lies. Not so much under a A free
market system later on Human Action.
Misa says, only those on the government's payroll are rated
as unselfish and Noble. This is a classic socialist
scheme where they say, it's really bad.
If you're in the private sector and you seek money, well, do you
think that Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham, and Joe Biden,
and Boris Johnson? And Vladimir zielinski?
Just a bunch of unpaid volunteers.
Do you think government teachers are unpaid volunteers, who don't
want money? They're just in it for the
greater good. No, they want money.
They're just a self-interested as the rest of us.
So now, the question is, now that we both controlled for the
experiment under every system, human beings seek their own
self-interest which system Harnesses.
This inevitable self interest in such a way to serve.
The masses will obviously the free market capitalist system,
which allows consumers or employees, or employers to
voluntarily disassociate with Bad actors, as opposed to
statism, which forces you to associate with them.
One more the quote from mises getting into his ideology.
The issue Meesa says, in Human Action is not the right.
To form associations it is whether or not any association
of private citizens should be granted the privilege of
resorting with impunity to Violent action.
It is the same problem that relates to the activities of the
Ku Klux Klan. So the massassi and ideology
explicitly says I'm not against associating right now.
When I'm talking to someone I'm using the English language a
language, I did not invent what I did was I Participated and I
associated with others, to the find out about these words and
then use them in in my own way. I'm talking onto a microphone, I
didn't invent on talking into a computer.
I also didn't invent, I traded for it.
Other people actually created it.
When it comes to charity, people are constantly using GoFundMe
Indiegogo. It's not a disagreement.
It's not a disagreement between, should we associate?
Or should we All by ourselves. Everything we do, is the result
of things that other people before us have done.
The question is, should we cooperate voluntarily or should
some people the state, the collective, the majority, the
wise, the rich? Should they have the right to
coercively rule over the rest of us?
That is getting at the heart of Ludwig.
Von mises Audiology, the article continues, he misses Laura Gates
liberals, who are willing to allow any state intervention in
the economy. Okay.
First of all that's incorrect Ludwig.
Von mises supported a state, police force.
He supported the state monopolizing, the court system,
he supported a state military so the idea that he wasn't willing
to allow any state. Intervention is not even close
to being accurate. Descendants continues willing to
allow any state intervention in the economy to advance the
general welfare. You're assuming that coercively
intervening would Advance the general welfare again mises is
not against people associating with each other, he's against
one group of people coercively. Interfering a third party that
does not have to bear the cost of the Comes of the interaction.
So it's not that he's against advancing the general welfare,
as we've previously discussed, he's just against some people
coercively in her fearing, the article goes on the overwhelming
impression. One gets from Reading mises,
many works is unrelenting dogmatism with more than a touch
of xenophobia and elitism quote, you have the courage to tell the
masses what no politician told. Add them, you are inferior.
And all the improvements in your condition, which you simply take
for, granted you o to the effort of men who are better than you
missis road to Ian. Rand in 1958, there is nothing
really wrong with elitism. For example, what percentage of
people do you think could write a show as funny as Seinfeld?
I'm not sure if it's even close to one tenth of one percent.
How many people are as talented at singing or rapping as Eminem
or Adele? What percentage of people would
you say are as talented at basketball as Kobe?
Bryant, there's a musical eat. There's a comedy Elite.
There's a basketball Elite in cooking.
How many people are as good as Gordon Ramsay at cooking?
There's a cooking Elite very small Elite.
See, genius comes in many forms. So, the idea that yeah, there
are some Basketball Geniuses. There's also some engineering
Geniuses and there's some people who are pretty genius at
knowing, how to manage and organize other people.
And that's why you have people like Steve Jobs, earning so much
money because he's making a product.
That's so many people appreciate.
So there's nothing wrong with elitism of xenophobia.
Not really sure where that is coming in with the exception of
every leftist who blames America uniquely for things like, Free
and colonialism, even though all Races and all continents have
practiced such evil deeds and not to mention elitism.
Am I under the socialist society going to have as much power and
influence as Jacobin magazine or Bernie Sanders, or Alexandria,
Cascio Cortez, or the Pol Pot of whoever our new socialist
benevolent, proletariat leader is going to be, of course,
there's As the iron law of oligarchy anytime people are
organized. It just makes economic sense.
When it comes to the cost benefit analysis of putting some
people at the top who have a lot of power and influence.
So this is the classic scam of saying that something is bad and
we depended on capitalism. The reality is something is bad
and it applies to human beings under any system.
Communism fascism syndicalism, capitalism, free market menarche
ISM Etc. Article continues according to
mrs. Market.
Society alone was responsible for human progress since the
Middle Ages. If other forces played a role,
whether political groups agitating for universal suffrage
or organized workers agitating for better conditions.
These were either made possible by capitalism and therefore of
negligible importance or were in fact, a barrier to capitalism's
beneficent advance. Yeah, I'm not sure why universal
suffrage or organized. First of all workers organizing,
there's nothing in mises work, that's against workers
organizing. What you might be referring to
is some people, whether they be workers, bosses, people who are
young, people who are retired, foreigners people in your
domestic land using the state to coercively, impose their will on
others. Well, whether their workers or
any other demographic in society.
Misa says that that decreases the amount of utility, his main
argument is more freedom, equals more social, cooperation, equals
more chances for people to achieve their satisfactory ends
peacefully and that leads to more wealth.
When it comes to universal suffrage, I'm not sure why
people voting on things, make things better considering the
average person is ignorant with regards to Politics history,
economics, philosophy, morality and logic, but yeah, in short,
but the reason the world is great is not because of statism
or violence. But in spite of violence,
following the Nazi invasion of Austria, who always always,
always they use. N a zi.
They never say National List. Even though that's what Joseph
garbles. Hermann Goering Adolf Hitler
referred to themselves as National socialists, probably
because there's no principle difference between national
socialism, socialism and communism.
They all Advocate initiating violence against peaceful
people. All it was, was that government
regulating a different organization.
It's some people regulating others.
No different than if whoa. Washington.
D.c. is regulating Arizona. Mrs. And his family, fled the
continent and settled in the United States.
So I guess the author is advocating for the freedom of
disassociation. With government officials and
freely moving to cooperate with other people.
The sounds very ideologically libertarian mises page 357 of
socialism said in the society based on division of labor and
cooperation The interests of all members are in Harmony and it
follows from this basic fact, of social life that ultimately
action in the interests of myself and action.
In the interest of others, do not conflict.
Since the interests of individuals come together in the
end, mises goes on to say in a critique of interventionism
page, 112 Society is division and Association of Labor in the
final analysis. Is no conflict of interest
between society and the individual as everyone can
pursue his interest more efficiently in society than in
isolation. So this gets us understanding
where mises stands and why he would be opposed to things like
national socialism the author then.
Discusses the calculation problem saying, mixes is perhaps
best known for his writings on the calculation problem, which
he claimed would be devil. Lenny socialist society under
capitalism mises explains the price mechanism allows
profit-seeking firms to determine what products
consumers want and in what quantity so we can recognize
again a constant under both systems.
Nothing is perfect statism Minar.
Chasm anarcho-capitalism. The question is which best
reflects the preferences of the masses getting a vote Between
two politicians once every four years or giving them the freedom
to freely associate and disassociate with producers of
certain products or services. To ask the question is to answer
it article continues. I'd like to focus on the
profound flaws of mises moral and political Arguments for
private. Property and capitalism, mises
often a historically. It's these together under the
label liberalism, as in his book, liberalism the program of
liberalism therefore if condensed into a single word
would have to read property that is private ownership of the
means of production, all the other demands of liberalism
result from the fundamental demand side by side with the
word property in the program of liberalism one may quite
appropriately. Place the words free Mm hand
piece. So it is statements like this,
that make it seem like Libertarians uniquely support
property rights and they fade for things like property over
people. When in reality all you have to
look at is things like government spending or January
6th to find out that the statist or the progressive or the
Jacobin is equally. Obsessed with property rights.
They don't say well hey, anyone has the The right to go into the
Capitol and take whatever they want because I don't believe in
property rights. You could go into the Pentagon
and take whatever you could go into government schools and take
whatever you want. You can just go into any
government, the department of motor vehicles and take whatever
you want. You could not abide by the
Environmental Protection Agency because they're just trying to
regulate your property and things that you're doing and
we're against that. Now, everyone believes in some
sort of property rights, however they try to make it seem Like
our anti-human and extra materialist by saying, we only
care about property, what distinguishes, the Communists
from the capitalist is the capitalist believes or
recognizes the right of people private property owners to
freely associate and or engage in contracts.
The Communist says, I know what exploitation is and I don't
allow almost all of the contracts that people choose to
freely engage in So, both believe in property, only the
capitalist or voluntarist believes in property and freedom
and when it comes to the word, Peace, A very wise man.
Once said that war is the health of the state, meaning that in a
time of war, that state could do things that otherwise couldn't
get away with by scaring the population into saying, oh,
there's this terrible thing or group of people at war with us.
But also the state is the health of War.
So when these Jacobins advocate, The government get trillions of
dollars. Well they can often find enemies
to go to war with and if they have the ability to tax, well
they're more likely to spend that money on war.
If they don't have to work for it, they could blow it on
things. They don't really care about, if
they're so powerful, they might have the ability to conscript
people against their will. So therefore, the state is also
the health of War because people don't actually have to bear the
cost of their bad actions. Imagine if Barack Obama had to
individually and peacefully, and voluntarily raise money for the
invasion of Libya. Not sure.
If, if it would have happened, the article goes on.
What makes the market uniquely powerful for mises, is his
belief that through each person's pursuit of their own
individual interests. They contribute to the overall
well-being, through mutually, beneficial exchanges, that
intern incentivize further, economic growth at times, He
compares the market to something approximating a worldwide
democracy where each consumer is allowed to vote with their
dollars on what should be produced compare that to the
political economy. When I buy something in the
marketplace, I have an incentive to find out if it's good or bad.
And if I'm ignorant, well, I have to bear the cost in the
political Marketplace. If you will, I bear no cost.
If If I vote for a bad politician, in fact, if the
government does something bad their incomes or their
government revenue, likely will increase.
I mean, imagine all the time you'd have to spend looking into
agricultural, subsidies schooling, foreign policy
domestic policy. The history of what has happened
with things like the Great Depression or things like
Spanish imperialism. It is so costly in time, money
and resources. Is to get informed that most
people don't care to get informed because at the end of
the day, they have a 1 in a 100 million vote there for voting or
voluntourism and democracy in the marketplace is much more
efficient and much more moral than in the political sphere.
Article continues while mises acknowledges that some people
have more dollars with which to vote.
He is untroubled by this imbalance.
Probably because mrs. Recognizes that it's an
imbalance that exists always and forever.
If everyone in America were given an equal vote, Joe.
Biden would still have more power than everyone else.
Kamala Harris, even Michelle Obama, someone never elected to
office because of her relation to someone.
Who was elected, as she has more power and influence.
Then 99.999 percent of Americans ever will with, with her
institutional power. So under every system for what
percentage of Cubans are as powerful as Raul Castro or
whoever took over from Fidel. What percentage of Venezuelans
are as powerful as Nicolas Maduro, what percentage of North
Koreans are as powerful as Kim il-sung, or Kim Jong-il or Kim
Jang, Hoon. There's always this power
imbalance. Any time human beings organized.
What percentage of people in Finland are as powerful as the
Prime Minister who wants them to join NATO, I've only heard from
one person from Finland abound, whether or not they want to join
NATO and its her, haven't heard anyone else.
According to Jacobin, there's tons of Quality all over the
place in the political sphere, of course, there's not.
He thinks we should disregard moralistic demands for equality.
Motivated. He says by mere resentment and
instead realize that a rising Tide Rises All Ships, eventually
He suggests liberalism and capitalism will bring about a
high standard of living and worldwide, peace for all, not
for all. There's no Steel Man, perfect
world. However, it's Much more likely
to do so than the Alternatives, the article continues.
If the aim is achieving the highest level of overall,
happiness, for a society in which each person's happiness
counts equally then a relatively or even highly, egalitarian
distribution of goods subject to variation, based on each
individual's particular needs would seem like the only
sensible distribution no way. Would not, I don't have a really
good laptop because things were evenly distributed.
People like Steve Jobs, had a ton more power than everyone
else. I don't have a really cool
ceiling fan because everyone equally was informed and then
they voted on how fans should operate.
Same thing with microphones or Mouse's.
The the idea that distribution of goods or power should be
equal is completely ridiculous. The second fallacy That's
practiced here. Is they saying subject of
variation based on each individual's particular needs.
They want a highly egalitarian distribution of goods.
What that is, is an end. That is a goal.
What meets us is talking about is a means or a process to
achieve said goal. So if we both agree, we want the
most people to have the most amount of stuff or even if we
want these things to be equal, which process or set of, Well,
should we Embrace to increase the likelihood that the most
amount of people will have the most amount of access to
products goods and services of higher quality and lower cost?
What this person is talking about is the goal of what mises
is talking about is the process which he believes will likely
achieve the goal. I'm sorry.
Not which he believes which irrefutably in every case will
achieve that goal that they allegedly want, the article
continues. More importantly, in a world
where the Nordic social democracies, enjoy the world's,
highest standard of living. So I want to put that to the
test by what metric can we determine standard of living.
From what I hear a lot of Christian monks, a lot of
Buddhists are extraordinarily poor and extraordinarily happy,
the link, I click on in this article does not account for
that. They appear to be just a bunch
of material list. Go paths who only care about
property and monetary gain. But let's accept their premise
and just talk about higher standards of living with regards
to material equality. First thing we could do is look
at the Fraser institute's ranking of the most to least
economically free countries and see where these Nordic systems
compared to places like the United States.
As you can see in the graph. If on your screen all five
Nordic states are actually ranked higher than America with
regards to economic freedom. When it comes to Denmark,
Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway.
All of those countries have more economic freedom, then America,
common misconception. See, the problem is, these
people are really ideological and they're not real hard headed
fingers or a success or scientist, they sort of just
live in. Our had not really anything to
do with the real world. So that is one way of refuting,
this thesis. Well, Nordic countries have the
Sun, so we can also go to one of the great authors from one of
the Nordic countries. Sweden.
A guy named Johan Norberg. His analysis of the issue is the
funny thing is that if the Sanders and acacio Cortez's of
the world made the United States, more like Sweden, what
would really happen? The United States would have to
have more free markets, more free trade pension reform with
private accounts. A national school, voucher
system with freedom of choice and Public Funding going to
private schools as well low corporate taxes and no taxes on
wealth property and inheritance. Why did we reform Sweden?
Sweden like that in the last two decades because we had a taste
of socialism and we didn't like it.
This is one of the biggest myths of all time, Robert Lawson.
And dr. Benjamin Powell and dr.
Tom Woods. Co-authored a book titled
socialism sucks. The thesis written by dr.
Woods in the introduction is summarized as follows.
He was a got a PhD from Columbia and Harvard University.
He says there's plenty to say regarding Sweden won its
socialist policies were made possible by wealth created under
an essentially capitalist economy as recently as the 1950s
remember government's best spent Aunt less as a percentage of GDP
in Sweden. Then in the United States, two
swedes are in about 50 percent more in the United States in are
supposedly Wicked economy and three since Sweden's.
Explosion of social welfare spending there, have been zero
jobs created on net in the private sector, not to mention.
It's what is commonly referred to as an abuse of analogy,
Denmark, Finland, and Norway. All have between five and six
million inhabitants. While Iceland has the smallest
population with only three hundred and seventy thousand
inhabitants. Where as America has 330 million
inhabitants, many of whom are immigrants all different ages
from all different countries. So comparing, the two is
completely ridiculous. What you can do for an accurate
comparison is to look at the population of The average Nordic
country and compare it to a state in America that has a
similar population. So the Nordic countries
averaging between 56 million people have an or rather have a
gross domestic product per capita in u.s. dollars at about
68 thousand dollars a year per capita.
If we compare that to a place like Massachusetts, this is a
state in the Northeast. In part of America that has a
similar number of people. We actually have a higher GDP
per capita at 75,000 dollars in US dollars.
So, that is an actual controlled experiment.
Much like a controlled experiment would be North Korea
versus South Korea or East, Germany.
Vs West, Germany. But no, they love to throw the
Nordic countries out because people haven't really looked
into them yet. Also, we could find that the
United States States has about a 60 3543 dollar GDP per capita,
whereas Sweden, one of the main Nordic countries that's commonly
referenced has a GDP per capita of about 52 thousand dollars
another state in America, which has roughly eight point.
Three million people is New York and they have this is just
talking about the New York metropolitan area, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania. Is about seventy four thousand
dollar, so that's still is more than the Nordic countries.
So it's incredible. That Jacobin is criticizing
meets us for just being an idea log and not really being down to
earth when, meanwhile, they make claims that have nothing to do
with the real world. Another way we could measure the
wealth of societies and which places are wealthier.
And why is by looking at States Within America, the most free
states. The ones that have the lowest
taxes and least amount of Regulation low with barriers to
entry versus the least free states.
There's actually a paper on this titled, equality, liberty and
prosperity by Anthony Davies. Megan Teague and James are
Harrigan and the study that these phds found was that the
more free people were in States. The more voluntary exchanges
they made the more Competition, there was the more Innovation.
There was the lower barriers to entry.
The more people have the ability to achieve their ends in life.
So they actually not only had more wealth, but there was more
economic equality and prosperity.
So these are all the studies that empirically show that
economic freedom is the most beneficial way to arrange a
society. If you want to go further, you'd
have to analyze America, the average American first, the
average Sweden, or the average. American Swede based on their
ages say, maybe 30 to 55, those are higher.
In coming years, you have to control for gender women.
Tend to work Less in the workplace, work more at home,
you'd have to control for full-time versus part-time work.
The length of consecutive employment, women are more
likely to take jobs where they're able to leave and have
kids. You'd also have to control for
which educational facilities, they enter in which degrees
He's, they attempt to get degrees from whether it's
engineering or teaching, you get the big differences in income.
So of course, Jacobin magazine doesn't account for any of that.
It's just a socialist propaganda.
Now, I want to get back to what I said at the beginning about me
sis Advocates, the decriminalization of capitalist
acts between consenting adults. For the same reason any
consenting adults, should be able to choose their life
partner. They should be able to choose
which products to buy, which services.
Or just anyone could try to influence them by persuading
them, or offering them an alternative.
But at the end of the day, my body, my choice, my money, my
choice, my time, my choice. So, what the Socialist is
actually doing, is what's commonly referred to, as by
psychologists as emotional abuse from bustle.com they compared
you to others a subtle but nonetheless nefarious sign of
emotional abuse. If your partner is constantly
comparing you to others, As a way to make you feel inferior or
not, good enough the Socialist will always say, but Canada has
fill in the blank, something that takes hours to verify and
find the details of, but Sweden has blank.
It doesn't matter either people on themselves and have a right
to engage in capitalist tax or economic activities between
consenting adults, or some other people rule them.
Another way we could verify whether or not the high prices
that are constantly pinned on American free market, is the
result of industries that exist in a more or less free market
because not every industry is equally taxed or equally
regulated. In fact, Paul Krugman the
progressive author of the book titled, the conscience of a
liberal wrote a book in 2004, and in 2004.
He said that 44 percent of healthcare.
Coverage is actually funded by the United States government.
So this is Medicare, Medicaid, the VA veterans association and
in 2004 we didn't have Medicare Part D that was implemented by
Republican George Bush. We also didn't have the
Affordable Care Act that had been passed under Barack Obama.
So back then it was still 44 percent and he who pays the
piper calls the tune producers. Focused on pleasing the
government. Instead of consumers, they have
no interest in lowering costs. Another way we could look at
this is from the American Enterprise Institute.
We could see which Industries have the most prices that are
decreasing verse which Industries are continuously
increasing in price. And it turns out the most
regulated Industries, hospitals, College, tuition, and Medical
Care. Along with housing are
Classically increasing in price much more, so than televisions
toys computer, software cell, phone services cars, and
clothing things, that have the least amount of Regulation.
This is how you can empirically test the claims of the
Socialist. Again, I'm not even that big on
it because I'm still going to Advocate volunteerism and
peaceful cooperation, I don't need to look at the studies of
well, let's try Jim Crow laws and see if they work.
But by what metric who's going to do that test?
I'm not even go, I'm not even willing to Grant the concept
that some people have the right to rule others, whether it's Jim
Crow, whether it's sexism, whether it's the economy, I
don't have the capacity or care to do such an experiment article
continues, a truly Global focus on utility would reveal that.
Disparities between different regions of the world with the
rich shelling out enormous sums on Goods of low marginal utility
while the poor lack access to food shelter and water.
Important note an increase in access to food water and
shelter. Is it does not come from
socialists voting or socialist complaining or BLM in antifa
rioting looting and burning down productive facilities.
It actually comes from competition, free trade
investment and Innovation so they love to both shoot at the
Golden Goose and complain that the Golden Goose is not lying
enough eggs. They think everyone has a right
to these scarce Goods that only come as a result of the labor
and efforts of others. And then they vilify, the people
who produce those goods. Any stringent utilitarianism
would recognize there can be no. Argument.
Okay, there can be no argument for spending 275 million dollars
on a luxury yacht. When you could inoculate
thousands of children against malaria for $10 a pop.
The current US Government gets four trillion dollars every
year. You think another 275 is really
about to turn things around. Well, actually the free market
is working on both. If you go to give well.org, you
can check out the against malaria area foundation where
you can actually see, which organizations are stopping the
spread of malaria, Believe It or Not.
Jacobin magazine does not make the top 100.
When it comes to things that actually solve people of
malaria, it's people who take their scarce dollars and
allocate it to places like give well.org or medications, like
chloroquine phosphate or things like a see T's but jacket.
And is too busy vilifying, the people who actually make life on
Earth, better for the rest of us.
Article continues, one of the most striking things about me.
Sis is his fairy tale understanding of liberalism's
complex history, which he often couples with a dose of
chauvinism and Prejudice complex history as opposed to the ideas
and organizations promoted by socialists and Jacobin, you
know, Like government, you know, since the days of Ganga scon and
Kaiser Wilhelm, I have murdered. God knows how many people under
the guise of helping people and civilizing.
People as if governments today in Russia or Ukraine or Saudi
Arabia, or Yemen or are many are not murdering innocent people.
The nerve that these people have to criticize the voluntary
sector but while government's commit mass murder On a scale on
thought of before is is just incredible when it comes to
chauvinism. The most sexist thing that
literally Von mises ever said, was that people who oppose the
draft are the enemies of Liberty.
He actually said something to the this extent when he said
that. Well, if we don't practice the
draft and the national socialists in Germany practice
the draft. Well, they're basically going to
take us over. He was a man of Of his time he
was incorrect in that idea that he was born into the able to see
through so many things, not able to see through the immorality of
forced labor when it comes to the state.
Of course Jacobin has no principled objection to forced
labor. All they care about us.
Well, I'd first have to measure the Surplus value.
Complete complete nonsense article continues.
This is them, criticizing the age of Imperialism.
All Government is imperialism, anything that Jacobin magazine
Advocates is imperialism. When Washington d.c. makes a
law. That Florida has to abide by and
Texas has to abide by in Arizona.
Or when people in Buckingham Palace pass a law that people in
the Isle of Wight have to abide by its imperialism.
It's some people coercively imposing their will on others.
That is socialism it's national socialism.
It's communism, it's syndicalism.
It's fascism they're All different Wings on the same
Kamikaze plane of collectivism. The author, then criticizes me
sis for Loosely, saying the colonization of India was
legitimated in part as an effort to bring civilization and
markets to and allegedly backward, part of the world.
Look, all government is immoral. And some governments are better
than others. I don't like the South Korean
government, but it's better than the North Korean government
sometimes. Just have to pick your battles
and second of all, this is the exact argument progressives have
against those idiots. In the South who are just so
uncivilized. We have to have the union,
invade them and impose, our will on them or else they just won't
behave in in the right way and I don't care.
What does statistics say about minorities and their support for
voucher systems that they need to Washington?
D.c. to impose our will on, on the rest of Them here is what
meets has actually said about the concept of imperialism
calling from omnipotent government page. 90 a nation
therefore has no right to say to a province.
You belong to me, I want to take you a province consists of its
inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be
heard, in this case, it is these inhabitants boundary disputes
should be settled by plebiscite quoting from nation-state and
economy page. 34 Lisa says, to the princely principle of
subjecting just as much land as obtainable to one's own rule,
the doctrine of Freedom, opposes the principle of the right of
self-determination of peoples which follows necessarily from
the principle of the rights of man.
No, people and no part of a people shall be held against its
will in a political Association that it It does not want.
I don't know how much more clear mises can be about opposing
things, like imperialism and supporting things like secession
or anti-colonialism. That is all I have for you on
this article. Thank you for watching Keith and
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