Does the crowded subway argument really boil down to inconsiderate people boarding the train when all the seats are taken or is it linked to aging metro systems with limited capacity. I would think it was the latter, so under the private system, it's like to be worse as most people are forced to commute by train and do not do so out of choice.
Sounds like they are talking about the Defense Budget at the end :)...God I miss General Ike. I would argue that the private sector is greatly monopolized as well and hasnt been about customer service for some time...benefits of deregulation
I love the free market, but I just don't trust the "politically incorrect guides" after their ridiculous bashing of natural selection. I wish someday people would realize that natural selection and the power of the free markets are actually compatible...in fact they're almost the same idea.
Robert Murphy has NO clue. Transit systems in the USA were originally PRIVATE- but due to waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, they were taken over by municipalities. When privately run- dead horses were left on the streets for the cities to clean up. Since "street cleaning" wasn't part of the business model- streets were filled with horse shit and dead horses.
@jpbab00 So, you're saying that--in today's world--there would be garbage all over the place, de-railed / inoperative trains/trolleys/etc. if things were run privately?
I'm actually not being argumentative... I'm just wondering if you think that--well... what it is you said occurred in the PAST... would be reflected equally poorly in the here and now (?)
@greytale No, he said that Robert Murphy is WRONG and his argument in the "guide" collapses under careful scrutiny by academics and professional historians (actually, any first year undergrad who is taking an introductory course to urban development would be able to school him..). Not sure how you extrapolate "there would be garbage all over the place, de-railed / inoperative trains/trolleys/etc. if things were run privately?"
@0scottweise18 what academics? what "professional historians"? I love that argument. I went to college so i'm smarter than you and the I can't make my argument so i invent people to make it for me. I love college kids, they're so braindead and brainwashed to the point where all it takes is a charismatic professor to convert them to statist orthodoxy. Let me guess, Paul Krugman is an economic genius, Keynes is god, and Mises is the devil? thought so
@AustereAustrian Sorry that you feel inferior because you are dumb. No, Keynes is not god, but he is dead, and since he is no expert on urban development or planning, he is not actually relevant to this 'discussion.' Neither is Hayek, BTW...
@jpbab00 - I'd have to look up how the conducted business. For example, what were laws and how enforceable were they back then? Were their monopolies whereby people good squelch the uprising of competition? There is much to consider. In today's environment in which we still live in the realms of law, private ownership always does better, hence why the American Indians who don't take Gov assistance are doing so much better than those receiving assitance & freebees (continued)
@theredraven I guess folks in the UK feel better about paying in higher general taxes instead of paying directly for their service. BTW, are government taxes included in the energy bills like they are in the US?
@fzqlcs It probably compounds them. Most money paid at petrol stations is to the treasury and not the fuel providers. But energy companies have this bad habit of announcing massive profit increases while further increasing bills. All it's done is made people skeptical of privatisation (the privatisation of the railways worked for freight but in passenger services has been a total disaster and in turn leads to people have fond memories of the monster known as British Railways).
@fzqlcs It happened with cleaning services in the health service. They began to outsource it in the 1980s and soon after (for some reason, maybe just a coincidence) we began to get more reports of dirty wards and superbugs like MRSA. We have computer services and patient records being outsourced to India for example. It makes people here very uneasy. That's not to say government doesn't cock up. It does. But when the privatisation causes cock ups as well, you can see why people are negative.
@fzqlcs That doesn't excuse the fact that nationalisation in Britain post world war two was incredibly heavy handed and included areas that it didn't need to (road haulage, pubs, travel agents, aircraft companies, shipbuilders) and that some of the things nationalised would have carried on well without it. But in a few key areas (health, education, energy and railways) the public consensus is more skewed towards either outright state ownership or heavier regulation.
I love Thomas Woods I do, but Murphy has a Friedman style quality about him. And all of us can agree that Friedman could never lose a debate. He articulated better than any other economist that mankind ever produced. Of course it didn't hurt that on every issue he was 100% correct. Truth is a hard thing to argue against.
The point at the end is the critical issue of our day. Government bureaucrats get more money the worse the service they provide. When will someone vote for more highway funds? When the highways are in terrible shape and the bureaucrats tell us they need more money to fix the highways properly. In this way the public employee unions are holding the taxpayer hostage.
This was great. R P Murphy is a great writer I think. Looks like a bowling ball & manages to clear a nice logical path that even I can follow. Smashing bloke.
Nice bit of video editing too. Very classy.............................Who was the twat at the end of the vid?
I'd hate to be the one to point this out, but public transportation in the Philippines is made up of privately owned jeepneys. The majority of them are overcrowded as well, the big difference being that if one is to crowded for your taste, you can wave it off and another jeepney that may not be as crowded is usually just a couple seconds behind the first. That said, jeepneys are way better than public buses or trains in my opinion.
@scrappmutt2 Of course, I'm just guessing, but I bet the jeepney drivers have to have a permit from a bureaucrat in order to operate. I read once that a taxi driver in Ontario and a few other cities have to pay around $250 000 for a permit. (This permit is to ensure that no cowboy taxi cabs can rip off their customers - Ya gotta hand it to those bureaucrunts). I wonder where the taxi driver is going to get $250 000 to pay for the permit.
@scrappmutt2 I meant to say, that since the numbers of taxis is probably limited by bureaucrats, no-one else is allowed to put extra jeepneys on the road to alleviate the crowding. (I'm guessing. But I'd bet a fed res note that I'm right).
@zalida100 There is a permit, but it does not cost much. They spend more money on getting their jeepney for sure. Permit is there just to keep them regulated and on a set route. Fares are also the same for all jeeps. There are no shortages of jeepneys, the streets are crowded with them. The jeepneys are crowded not due to their shortage, and the jeepney drivers will stuff as many passengers as he physically can in the jeep because the more passengers he gets, the more money he takes home.
@zalida100 The jeepney is a great example of how a good private public partnership in public transportation can work. Aside from being crowded and a bit reckless, the fares are reasonable, you DO NOT need correct change (something that screwed me a couple times on buses in the states) and if you miss the jeepney, there is one only a couple seconds behind it because there are no set schedules, only set routes. The jeep drivers and jeeps are paid for directly by passengers, not tax payers.
So many of our free market, intellectual giants are dead. Of those that are alive, so many are getting old and will not be with us for much longer. It fills me with great joy that we have among us, young men like Tom Woods, and Robert Murphy.
Keep up the good work. Always enjoy your video's. Matter of fact in one way or another you introduced me to libertarianism through your videos of Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman. That eventually led me a directly completely, that of Mises and the Austrian School. Robert P Murphy being one of my personal favorites. Thomas E. Woods is another great libertarian, hopefully you have some of his video's and works as well.
@mjuslen If you are headed in the direction of Mises? You are on the correct path. Welcome to the light and the truth my friend. About 300 million to go and we will save this country.
Comments like yours make all the efforts against the Cult of the Omnipotent State(and other religions as well, for that matter), worthwhile. I too was led out of the obsolete paradigm statism thanks to various videos on YouTube. :-)
If I am not mistaken, there used to be private subways in a couple cities, but they were run out of business by regulation. And there definitely used to be plenty of private streetcar companies, which are essentially the same thing on a smaller scale.
These facts are so obvious, every politician should be agreeing on this - the differences between political platforms should be coming elsewhere! How could it have happened that it is not the case?
@agent008t Because were endowed rights from something else besides our fellow man, yet our fellow man refutes our right to be left alone or at least to not tie us down to other people's problems. On that aspect being chained to something is not freedom. Take from Peter to give to Paul is a means to an end which is power. Dictating how all live like a armchair intellectual elitist. Let the haves work, amass the nots and you divide and conquer. Kings and pawns, wise men and fools. Wish I was evil.
@agent008t Because an abundant number of people is going to vote for crazy marxist ideology or corruptocratic handouts instead of common sense and public good? Most politicians do not get into office to do objective good. They claim to do good (often by crazy ideology like "spending to save money") to get elected. In the end the people are responsible for the government and what they let their representatives get away with. I think many representatives really represent their voters...
I agree private sector services tend to be superior. I still remember having to deal with "public sector services" when I had to get a medical waiver approved for ROTC. First I had to get a second, more thorough eye exam which wasn't too bad but then I had to wait for federal bureaucrats to approve the results which took about 4 months for them to complete. As a result, I couldn't contract in ROTC because it took so long. Government-run processes tend to be way slower and way more inefficient.
Cadets who don't meet basic medical qualifications can still get contracted if they get a medical waiver approved which means a more thorough test and a longer, more agonizing bureaucratic review of the test results. My problem was that during the time I had such bad nearsightedness that it was assumed I would be more likely to get complications like lattice deterioration so I had to get another eye exam to show that I wouldn't but it took them too long to review the results.
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KenMacMillan 3 months ago
Great video! Very clear and informative.
Does the crowded subway argument really boil down to inconsiderate people boarding the train when all the seats are taken or is it linked to aging metro systems with limited capacity. I would think it was the latter, so under the private system, it's like to be worse as most people are forced to commute by train and do not do so out of choice.
Mojuggernaut 7 months ago
Sounds like they are talking about the Defense Budget at the end :)...God I miss General Ike. I would argue that the private sector is greatly monopolized as well and hasnt been about customer service for some time...benefits of deregulation
CMTPROMISES 11 months ago
I love the free market, but I just don't trust the "politically incorrect guides" after their ridiculous bashing of natural selection. I wish someday people would realize that natural selection and the power of the free markets are actually compatible...in fact they're almost the same idea.
darwinkilledgod 11 months ago
Robert Murphy has NO clue. Transit systems in the USA were originally PRIVATE- but due to waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, they were taken over by municipalities. When privately run- dead horses were left on the streets for the cities to clean up. Since "street cleaning" wasn't part of the business model- streets were filled with horse shit and dead horses.
jpbab00 11 months ago
@jpbab00 So, you're saying that--in today's world--there would be garbage all over the place, de-railed / inoperative trains/trolleys/etc. if things were run privately?
I'm actually not being argumentative... I'm just wondering if you think that--well... what it is you said occurred in the PAST... would be reflected equally poorly in the here and now (?)
greytale 11 months ago
@greytale No, he said that Robert Murphy is WRONG and his argument in the "guide" collapses under careful scrutiny by academics and professional historians (actually, any first year undergrad who is taking an introductory course to urban development would be able to school him..). Not sure how you extrapolate "there would be garbage all over the place, de-railed / inoperative trains/trolleys/etc. if things were run privately?"
0scottweise18 11 months ago
@0scottweise18 is there some kind of documented research to show that he is wrong? Id like to see it....
polevaultrockstr 8 months ago
@0scottweise18 what academics? what "professional historians"? I love that argument. I went to college so i'm smarter than you and the I can't make my argument so i invent people to make it for me. I love college kids, they're so braindead and brainwashed to the point where all it takes is a charismatic professor to convert them to statist orthodoxy. Let me guess, Paul Krugman is an economic genius, Keynes is god, and Mises is the devil? thought so
AustereAustrian 8 months ago
@AustereAustrian Sorry that you feel inferior because you are dumb. No, Keynes is not god, but he is dead, and since he is no expert on urban development or planning, he is not actually relevant to this 'discussion.' Neither is Hayek, BTW...
0scottweise18 7 months ago 6
@jpbab00 - I'd have to look up how the conducted business. For example, what were laws and how enforceable were they back then? Were their monopolies whereby people good squelch the uprising of competition? There is much to consider. In today's environment in which we still live in the realms of law, private ownership always does better, hence why the American Indians who don't take Gov assistance are doing so much better than those receiving assitance & freebees (continued)
WingThaiJ 11 months ago
@jpbab00 (continued) why city parks run privately are so much cleaner, and nice than gov run ones.
WingThaiJ 11 months ago
Bob Murphy is awesome.
BillySmooth55 11 months ago
so thats why gay bureaucrats love the packed train-lolol its about all the dick squishing they ever get
swu880 11 months ago
@swu880 There is also pussy on the trains for the straight bureaucrats to squish.
jffryh 11 months ago
144 people forgot that taxis exist.
You don't want to get squished? Take a cab :P
SamusX10 11 months ago
2 ppl like gettin all squishy with the fat man on the packed train
100CommonCents 11 months ago 2
Two butthurt eleutherophobic statetards thumbed down this video, as I write this comment.
Akatam0t0ma 11 months ago
"Professor Murphy explains why services are always best provided by the private sector"
Bit of a generalisation actually. Just ask people in the UK how they feel about energy bills AFTER privatisation.
theredraven 11 months ago
@theredraven I guess folks in the UK feel better about paying in higher general taxes instead of paying directly for their service. BTW, are government taxes included in the energy bills like they are in the US?
fzqlcs 11 months ago
@fzqlcs It probably compounds them. Most money paid at petrol stations is to the treasury and not the fuel providers. But energy companies have this bad habit of announcing massive profit increases while further increasing bills. All it's done is made people skeptical of privatisation (the privatisation of the railways worked for freight but in passenger services has been a total disaster and in turn leads to people have fond memories of the monster known as British Railways).
theredraven 11 months ago
@fzqlcs It happened with cleaning services in the health service. They began to outsource it in the 1980s and soon after (for some reason, maybe just a coincidence) we began to get more reports of dirty wards and superbugs like MRSA. We have computer services and patient records being outsourced to India for example. It makes people here very uneasy. That's not to say government doesn't cock up. It does. But when the privatisation causes cock ups as well, you can see why people are negative.
theredraven 11 months ago
@fzqlcs That doesn't excuse the fact that nationalisation in Britain post world war two was incredibly heavy handed and included areas that it didn't need to (road haulage, pubs, travel agents, aircraft companies, shipbuilders) and that some of the things nationalised would have carried on well without it. But in a few key areas (health, education, energy and railways) the public consensus is more skewed towards either outright state ownership or heavier regulation.
theredraven 11 months ago
I love Thomas Woods I do, but Murphy has a Friedman style quality about him. And all of us can agree that Friedman could never lose a debate. He articulated better than any other economist that mankind ever produced. Of course it didn't hurt that on every issue he was 100% correct. Truth is a hard thing to argue against.
SuperGuitarman69 11 months ago
Robert Murphy is great. I would recommend his lectures you can download from Mises.org.
Minnesnowtakid 11 months ago
It was this channel that inspired me.
martinaoe2 11 months ago
The point at the end is the critical issue of our day. Government bureaucrats get more money the worse the service they provide. When will someone vote for more highway funds? When the highways are in terrible shape and the bureaucrats tell us they need more money to fix the highways properly. In this way the public employee unions are holding the taxpayer hostage.
danswim11 11 months ago
with you except for the theater and airplane comment. Both of which must deal with max capacity laws
RandolphLevin 11 months ago
@RandolphLevin To be fair, what theater would you go to? The one w/ severe overcrowding, or the one where there's a seat for every ass?
That's the market dictating private enterprise policy.
jrsub3 11 months ago
Private systems would want you to have an enjoyable experience.
Government wants you to learn compliance, don't kid yourself, they're not at all interested in cost efficiency!
ricadrew 11 months ago
public schools are failing
public transport is failing
public hospitals are failing
government is failing
how blind do americans need to become before they take action are remove these fools from government like bush, clinton, obama and mccain
my vote is for ron paul.
end the federal reserve
hyylo 11 months ago
This was great. R P Murphy is a great writer I think. Looks like a bowling ball & manages to clear a nice logical path that even I can follow. Smashing bloke.
Nice bit of video editing too. Very classy.............................Who was the twat at the end of the vid?
zalida100 11 months ago
I'd hate to be the one to point this out, but public transportation in the Philippines is made up of privately owned jeepneys. The majority of them are overcrowded as well, the big difference being that if one is to crowded for your taste, you can wave it off and another jeepney that may not be as crowded is usually just a couple seconds behind the first. That said, jeepneys are way better than public buses or trains in my opinion.
scrappmutt2 11 months ago
@scrappmutt2 Of course, I'm just guessing, but I bet the jeepney drivers have to have a permit from a bureaucrat in order to operate. I read once that a taxi driver in Ontario and a few other cities have to pay around $250 000 for a permit. (This permit is to ensure that no cowboy taxi cabs can rip off their customers - Ya gotta hand it to those bureaucrunts). I wonder where the taxi driver is going to get $250 000 to pay for the permit.
zalida100 11 months ago
@scrappmutt2 I meant to say, that since the numbers of taxis is probably limited by bureaucrats, no-one else is allowed to put extra jeepneys on the road to alleviate the crowding. (I'm guessing. But I'd bet a fed res note that I'm right).
zalida100 11 months ago
@zalida100 There is a permit, but it does not cost much. They spend more money on getting their jeepney for sure. Permit is there just to keep them regulated and on a set route. Fares are also the same for all jeeps. There are no shortages of jeepneys, the streets are crowded with them. The jeepneys are crowded not due to their shortage, and the jeepney drivers will stuff as many passengers as he physically can in the jeep because the more passengers he gets, the more money he takes home.
scrappmutt2 11 months ago
@zalida100 The jeepney is a great example of how a good private public partnership in public transportation can work. Aside from being crowded and a bit reckless, the fares are reasonable, you DO NOT need correct change (something that screwed me a couple times on buses in the states) and if you miss the jeepney, there is one only a couple seconds behind it because there are no set schedules, only set routes. The jeep drivers and jeeps are paid for directly by passengers, not tax payers.
scrappmutt2 11 months ago
@scrappmutt2 It sounds pretty good. Probably looks like organised chaos - haha. But it obviously works fairly well. Thanks for reply.
zalida100 11 months ago
WTF - riders are disproportionately black? BS!! have you ever actually ridden in a big city subway?
desirefirst 11 months ago
So many of our free market, intellectual giants are dead. Of those that are alive, so many are getting old and will not be with us for much longer. It fills me with great joy that we have among us, young men like Tom Woods, and Robert Murphy.
Panpiper 11 months ago 12
@Panpiper Dr. Murphy is the future. Hopefully more people will listen to him than they did w/ Friedman and Sowell.
jrsub3 11 months ago
@Panpiper I'm 20, I'll get going on it
alistairproductions 5 months ago
Classic end to this telling episode!
chrisx2k6 11 months ago
@LibertyPen
Keep up the good work. Always enjoy your video's. Matter of fact in one way or another you introduced me to libertarianism through your videos of Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman. That eventually led me a directly completely, that of Mises and the Austrian School. Robert P Murphy being one of my personal favorites. Thomas E. Woods is another great libertarian, hopefully you have some of his video's and works as well.
mjuslen 11 months ago 18
@mjuslen If you are headed in the direction of Mises? You are on the correct path. Welcome to the light and the truth my friend. About 300 million to go and we will save this country.
SuperGuitarman69 11 months ago
@mjuslen I concur with this. My only complaint is that whenever Ayn Rand, or Hayek in particular is on I need subtitles.
jimbo525SE 11 months ago
@mjuslen:
Comments like yours make all the efforts against the Cult of the Omnipotent State(and other religions as well, for that matter), worthwhile. I too was led out of the obsolete paradigm statism thanks to various videos on YouTube. :-)
Akatam0t0ma 11 months ago
If I am not mistaken, there used to be private subways in a couple cities, but they were run out of business by regulation. And there definitely used to be plenty of private streetcar companies, which are essentially the same thing on a smaller scale.
TheBullionBull 11 months ago
Not sure Robert's going to appreciate his introductory music, as you have for your other usual speakers. :/
selfrealizedexile 11 months ago
These facts are so obvious, every politician should be agreeing on this - the differences between political platforms should be coming elsewhere! How could it have happened that it is not the case?
agent008t 11 months ago
@agent008t Because were endowed rights from something else besides our fellow man, yet our fellow man refutes our right to be left alone or at least to not tie us down to other people's problems. On that aspect being chained to something is not freedom. Take from Peter to give to Paul is a means to an end which is power. Dictating how all live like a armchair intellectual elitist. Let the haves work, amass the nots and you divide and conquer. Kings and pawns, wise men and fools. Wish I was evil.
LokiScoutSniper 11 months ago
@agent008t Because an abundant number of people is going to vote for crazy marxist ideology or corruptocratic handouts instead of common sense and public good? Most politicians do not get into office to do objective good. They claim to do good (often by crazy ideology like "spending to save money") to get elected. In the end the people are responsible for the government and what they let their representatives get away with. I think many representatives really represent their voters...
scepticsteve 11 months ago
I agree private sector services tend to be superior. I still remember having to deal with "public sector services" when I had to get a medical waiver approved for ROTC. First I had to get a second, more thorough eye exam which wasn't too bad but then I had to wait for federal bureaucrats to approve the results which took about 4 months for them to complete. As a result, I couldn't contract in ROTC because it took so long. Government-run processes tend to be way slower and way more inefficient.
Infantry9 11 months ago 2
@Infantry9 They let people in with waivers now?
tjohn1986 11 months ago
@tjohn1986
Cadets who don't meet basic medical qualifications can still get contracted if they get a medical waiver approved which means a more thorough test and a longer, more agonizing bureaucratic review of the test results. My problem was that during the time I had such bad nearsightedness that it was assumed I would be more likely to get complications like lattice deterioration so I had to get another eye exam to show that I wouldn't but it took them too long to review the results.
Infantry9 11 months ago