The socialist left says the evidence capitalism oppresses the poor is that free markets relocate factories to the poorest nations in order to pay the lowest wages. And when wage rates rise in poor nations like South Korea and Japan, they move their factories over to...
LB of the Been Awake podcast joined me to discuss the terms left and right. LB is a great thinker and podcaster and we wanted to dig into the essence of what the terms left and right mean politically. As Orwell noted, politics neuters language and weaponizes words, so...
https://youtu.be/beOl_6ebVoU 1. People are more willing to make good decisions for themselves than others 2. People have better information on their preferences than other people 3. If you know you will control your future decisions, you are more able to make good...
The murder rate in 2020 was at an all time high, and commentators are in a tizzy about this. It turns out that there were 21,570 homicides in the United States. This is an unprecedented increase of almost 30% compared to 2019. An additional 4901 people were murdered...
Not speaking clearly may be the first problem of politics. It is much like the old axiom, often misattributed to Burke, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. In much of the world, conservatism has been living in fear since the last...
https://youtu.be/66vN8OA6qao Free-market capitalism is a marvelous antidote for racism. In a free market, employers who refuse to hire productive black workers are hurting their own profits and the competitive position of their own company. Murray N. Rothbard Making...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AVGumi40U ... my basic motivation for being a libertarian had never been economic but moral. ... While I was convinced that the free market was more efficient and would bring about a far more prosperous world than statism, my major...
https://youtu.be/nohK6D99wVc In a socialist state, the government has arrogated to itself virtually all property and power of the country. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 446 LBRY / Odysee:...
