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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
The Logic of It All
This is how some people think: Business has long used the government to gain benefits it could not get in the marketplace. I have the cure for that: Abolish the market and expand the government to encompass all of society.
I think that you've put your finger on it. Such a misguided strategy, to put your trust in a central authority and relinquish to that central authority all of the power they need to make you into their slave. It's not like we don't have plenty of examples from history to show us exactly how that happens.
I think that you've put your finger on it. Such a misguided strategy, to put your trust in a central authority and relinquish to that central authority all of the power they need to make you into their slave. It's not like we don't have plenty of examples from history to show us exactly how that happens.
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