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volition 9 months ago
Ayn Rand could see it and eloquently explain it. Destroy material wealth through inflation, destroy moral standards by inflating the meaning of individual rights. “A collectivist tyranny dare not enslave a country by an outright confiscation of its values, material or moral. It has to be done by a process of internal corruption. Just as in the material realm the plundering of a country's wealth is accomplished by inflating the currency-so today one may witness the process of inflation being applied to the realm of rights. The process entails such a growth of newly enacted "rights" that people do not notice the fact that the meaning of the concept is being reversed. Just as bad money drives out good money, so these "printing-press rights" negate authentic rights.” Excerpt from: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Ayn Rand This material may be protected by copyright Highly recommend this book.
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volition 9 months ago
Think this is important in how one challenges law one disagrees with, from the philosopher Ayn Rand. “Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.” Excerpt From Capitalism: the unknown ideal Ayn Rand This material may be protected by copyright.
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volition 10 months ago
Profound. “The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. It is because we have become increasingly wealthy as a nation that we have been able virtually to eliminate child labor, to remove the necessity of work for many of the aged and to make it unnecessary for millions of women to take jobs.” Excerpt From The Failure of the “New Economics”: An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies Henry Hazlitt This material may be protected by copyright.