The evidence is only that jobholders and jobseekers are alike subject to a law which nature, perhaps unfortunately, has made universal. Like all the rest of us, they tend always to satisfy their needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
Either libertarians would have to painfully make their way to developing an interest in history, current affairs, economics, political philosophy — in short, the real world, or else they would have to descend into a blissful silence (blissful that is, for the rest of us.)
The second noticeable consequence of the state's activity in everybody's business but its own is that its own business is monstrously neglected.
Ideas matter. More than we know. Why haven't we won? Because we are not doing enough and our ranks are not big enough. We need to do what we are doing on ever-grander scales. We need to make ever-better arguments on behalf of liberty. And we need to have patience, just like the prohibitionists and socialists had patience to see their agenda to the end.
Public goods are a cover for coercion, and public high school football is a private good funded by someone else's tax bill. Don't believe otherwise.
Some of the responses to my post on General Pinochet have reminded me that along with the f
Indeed, global capitalism makes bureaus such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission even more unnecessary.
