"From time to time I entertained the hope that my writings would bear practical fruit and point policy in the right direction. I have always looked for evidence of a change in ideology. But I never actually deceived myself; my theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline." — Ludwig von Mises.
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Last Notes npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian "Some achievements of #Unions..." is just union #propaganda. All these achievements are the result of accumulation of capital by capitalists (both small and large). But people are economically ignorant and therefore they consume this lie. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian I'm not asking, boy. I'm saying that you and your comrades are simply wrong. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Unions certainly cannot achieve their goals without #violence or the threat of violence. They always seek to obtain wages above the market. And the main victims of their "class struggle" are consumers and #workers who are not union members. Unions, I repeat, are the real exploiters. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Unions are extortionists, exploiters. Governments should not allow them to use violence or the threat of violence against employers and strikebreakers, and public opinion should not support them. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian "You're blocked". npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian 1) People are killing the #environment, not #capitalism. People were killing the nature long before capitalism. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Government spending is not investment. The government takes money from people by force and then spends it on its own whims. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Intellectuals advise increasing #government spending on #education and so on. But this will not make consumers and net taxpayers happier. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian They were scholars, not propagandists. You're economically ignorant so you are arrogant. This is not good. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian I have not read Ha-Joon Chang. There are plenty of such "economists" who are actually propagandists of statism. Those who want to know real economics should immediately read #Mises and #Rothbard. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian If the left were economically literate, they wouldn't be left. Please read Mises on poverty, capitalism, etc. His books are free. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian You can feed some of them with your own money. Will you do it? Or will you write posts suggesting to rob someone else to feed the poor? npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Eight billion people on the planet are the merit of capitalism. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Live off capitalism and punch it as hard as you can. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian There are property rights. People's rights to their property. The state must protect these rights. It must not interfere with peaceful, voluntary relations between people. That is not its job. It must only protect peace. What is unclear about that? A society with such an economic system will be free, peaceful and prosperous. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Freedom from government intervention in market processes can exist quite successfully. The only task of the government in such an economy is the protection of property rights and peace among people. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian I believe that the "key issue" is government intervention in the economy. Bureaucrats and their university advisers believe that they know better how to manage the production of goods and services. This is #statism. Let's try freedom. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian When you can't defend your fallacies, you simply block your opponent. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian There is no such thing as a mixed economy. There is a market economy distorted by government intervention. No one can combine capitalism and socialism. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian CO2 levels are just one of countless numbers that people need to fix. It's impossible. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian #Socialism, if implemented only in the United States, would make life much worse for most Americans. If implemented worldwide, it would destroy civilization entirely. Do you want it? npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian People cannot fix it. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian Ordinary people are so envious! They themselves, as consumers, make him super rich, and now they hate him. For his success. npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian David Gordon: "The philosopher Karl Popper devoted considerable attention to Karl Marx in Volume 2 of The Open Society and Its Enemies, originally published in 1945, and in this week’s column, I’d like to consider some of his insights." https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/karl-popper-marx #marx #popper #philosophy #economics npub1xvvf7ky8aahwtppxartmvp2x4wk6tcvntwe74z8hsrylg9g2pq4q5xhgzf Austrian This typo is the unavoidable result of public #education. Education must be private.
