HISTORY SHOWS … POWER CORRUPTS … ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY
THERE is NO ONE ‘FIT’ to RULE … – Lord Acton
CAPITALISM is the ASTOUNDING BELIEF that WICKED MEN … DOING WICKED THINGS … for the COMMON GOOD… – Keynes …
“STRANGE” … BUT TRUE …
“The great VIRTUE of a FREE MARKET is that it enables people who EACH each other, or who are from vastly DIFFERENT religious or ethnic backgrounds, to COOPERATE economically. Government intervention can’t do that.” – Milton Friedman
“The great virtue of a FREE MARKET system is that it DOES NOT CARE what COLOR people are; it DOES NOT CARE what their RELIGION is; it ONLY CARES whether they can PRODUCE SOMETHING you want to BUY.”
It is the MOST EFFECTIVE system we have DISCOVERED to enable people who HATE one another to DEAL WITH one another and HELP one another. – Milton Friedman
MARKETS … (sometimes seemingly “cruel” or “brutal”) CORRECT (bring-allow “compassion”…
the POWER of the “PURSE” … to “VOTE” with your WALLET … to influence and impact society …
IN a “TRAGIC” WORLD … POLITICAL INTERESTS (collective IRON FIST) IS BEST COMBATTED with ECONOMIC INTERESTS (consumer INVISIBLE HAND)
“CHOICE” is often more powerful than “COMMAND” …
Karl MARX vs Adam SMITH …
“ALIENATION” vs “ALTRUISM” …
“The most important single central FACT about a FREE MARKET is that NO EXCHANGE takes place unless BOTH parties BENEFIT” … – Milton Friedman
a “RISING TIDE” (raising all boats) vs “ZERO SUM” (I win, you lose)
FASCISM vs FREEDOM …