Glenn Beck Presents: F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" (Part 2)

What F.A. Hayek saw, and what most all his contemporaries missed, was that every step away from the free market and toward government planning represented a compromise of human freedom generally and a step toward a form of dictatorship--and this is true in all times and places. He demonstrated this against every claim that government control was really only a means of increasing social well-being. Hayek said that government planning would make society less liveable, more brutal, more despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom.

Nazism, he wrote, is not different in kind from Communism. Further, he showed that the very forms of government that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise. Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.

Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move away from that system, we empower the worst people in society to manage what they do not understand.

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[cannotbebothered100]

Indeed, 'coercion' by negative property rights can include in the price system the incentives for production and discouragement for overuse of those positive externalities considered to require forced State funding, by exclusion from some property bought on covenant to pay the fee to provide that utility, of non payers of that fee in order to organise local positive externalities WITHIN the price system by the same contracts that can segregate incompatible acts from mutual proximity

[cannotbebothered100]

@perdondaris

'but I wouldn't expect' rather

[cannotbebothered100]

@perdondaris

But I wouldn't understand an 'anti authority' airhead like you to understand the problems of social order and productivity for man's needs so go back to your fantasising about how we can remove 'structural coercion' or whatever you would call it, to remove all social order imputed by customers, vendors, rentiers and indeed all voluntary exchangers in mutually influencing each other to act more productively and less destructively of value, for others' needs.

[cannotbebothered100]

Indeed such 'coercion' as allowed by negative property rights is what 'compels' payment for value such that there are both signals as to what is more needed 2 serve the urgent wants of others if you will put in the effort and foresight 2 profitably do so, & signals to prevent the overusage of that resource that with things made free to non payers by State theft actually 'coerces' society 2 remove direct financial incentives for reducing strain on resource, thereby harming the poor.

[cannotbebothered100]

So what is freedom? The freedom to starve without the social order allowed by property rights, including property rights over capital, property rights creating the price and interest system to distract from misallocation of resource/discourage overuse, and to induce investment of capital into the hands of those who can direct it well for dividends for the rentier precisely for that dispersion of control of useful capital that extends good direction for labourers who need it 4 wealth

[perdondaris]

You are not very authoritarian about your body if you are conceding your reproductive rights to a state bureaucrat as the right to life movement desires. Or ceding the authority over your body to a boss. The word "boss" comes from the Afrikaaner word for "master" (baas) inferring that you are your boss's slave. Therefore you aren't "authoritarian" with your body if you work for someone else.

[megatherium100]

@perdondaris Whats wrong with authoritarianism?. I´m authoritarian about my body that is my own an that somebody else can´t dispouse of it as it pleases him, does that make me a bad person because i´m authoritarian to respect to my body?

[soorayHOMS]

@MrReco12 thank you...... Attlee got shit done. considered best prime minister of 19th century

[perdondaris]

By the way, every organization is an enterprise---from the Communist Party to the Church of Ladder Day Saints. Applying the word "free" before every noun doesn't make your cause "freedom". The "free market" is manipulated, just like the U.S. government or any other organization. Capitalism is an authoritarian system of economics.

[perdondaris]

No, it's capitalism. Capitalist philosophers do not understand that capital can be manipulated and used as coercion. Of course the plot of Atlas Shrugged is just this type of coercion, just like a strike or a boycott is the use of economic power as coercion. Christian groups use this all the time to force enterprises to change their policy (in issues as wide ranging as forcing them to stop supporting Planned Parenthood and forcing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to drop the "Devil" out of their name).