 This is a review of why government is the problem by Milton Friedman. This is a small essay that is about 30 pages long. I actually accidentally bought this for a couple dollars and it's a pretty good read. This will be a short review. I do recommend you read Capitalism is Freedom which I'll review later on. It's really bureaucracy versus the people, the individuals. Here's a quote. Abraham Lincoln talked about a government of the people by the people for the people. What we now have is a government of the people by the bureaucrats including the legislators who have become bureaucrats for the bureaucrats. And with all these laws everything becomes nitpicky where there are going to be people that gain the system. The law of nature is being tweaked. And this essay came at about in 1993. Its concerns being family values where the government intervenes. And is this the cause of many single parent families? Is that a big government where they'll help you control rent, help you out with housing? Because the actual costs of these homes say I live in California it's about a fourth of the cost. If the home costs $500,000 it's really only $125,000. Even with the land it depends on the price of land but with the supplies and the labor to build it. In other words it's inflated especially with tax credits to prop up these prices. As well as the permits and requirements to enforce laws. Laws create jobs but they also destroy freedom. And interesting that I learned from this is non-taxable health care started with World War II where they wanted to encourage hiring. The government helped out with health care and so it became more of an entitlement after the fact years later that people became accustomed to this and this can steamroll and snowball to build entitlements. Where this is kind of the real point of this is hard work is not really appreciated. The people with merit are not going to rise or rise as fast as they can under a big government system. And something that Milton Frieden saw was the whole taxi industry which Uber and Lyft and the rideshare economy has completely destroyed where taxis and the medallions were there only a certain amount of medallions distributed to keep the taxi industry controlled. They limited to number to inflate the prices. Now Uber and Lyft the prices what the price is there's no control no government corruption to intervene and the fact that Milton Friedman pointed that out is there's been a good disruption in that market really towards freedom. Here's the last quote the great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are it does not care what their religion is it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It's the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. So hate does not really matter. And it's just a simple asset I do not recommend buying this however you accidentally buy it like me just go ahead and read it it's pretty good. And the main point is socialism versus capitalism where which one works which one do we want do you think capitalism is freedom.