Liberty and Equality?

Milton Friedman 1978. From a lecture given at Stanford University.

From Milton Friedman Speaks: Lecture 04, "The Role of Government in a Free Society"
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[libertyhound99]

Computers in no way give liberty. You are missing the understanding of true liberty. Liberty is not enhanced, created, or granted by any group or government. Liberty is a priori., natural, and God granted by grace. I think part of the problem is that people have lost a fundamental understanding of what liberty is.

[TheNateAmazing]

"People are corrupt by nature. Certain people will use their liberties to undermine other peoples liberties. hence you have inequality"

You have free will only in so far as you do not circumvent or abridge other's rights. This is why you need a government: it must be created to protect individuals from initiating the use of force in between and among themselves. It performs this function because and only because it has a monopoly on the legal use of force.

[Mezey5]

@sleepyeyeguy In a society that is free people have the largest opportunity to become more wealthy, why is it the United States has so many more wealthy people anywhere else in the world, why is it our poor are relatively much better off then any other nations poor. Is it better to chop the largest trees in the forest to make them the same height? or is it better to encourage growth?

[sleepyeyeguy]

@TheNateAmazing Even without the use of force, isn't there still a severe lack of upward mobility in which those possessing the most wealth dominate all markets? At some point is it no longer the responsibility of the powerful, made so from prior committed injustices, to engage in programs or activities that compensate for that injustice? (just a talking point... please engage)

[fargonbastedge]

@cesar333 I dont think all the "inequality" in the world is from others taking from others. I think its just dumb/low IQ people behaving and doing stuff that dumb/low IQ things...

the world works in survival of the strongest. Not survival of the most "equality".



[p1nkAcid]

plus friedman is quite the prick

[p1nkAcid]

@libertyhound99 liberty is a posteriori

[DeanoProductionsTM]

Reply to top comment: People who use their liberty to undermine other people's liberty are not educated enough in the importance of liberty, what evidence is there that it is geneticly encoded? Education and intellectualism is needed. A government by force is no better than a fight between other individuals that a government would supposedly be helping.

[weavermama]

@TheNateAmazing " If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." – James Madison

[cesar333]

People are corrupt by nature. Certain people will use their liberties to undermine other peoples liberties. hence you have inequality.