In a world full of Karens, be the Dagny.
Our politicians tell us we are free, even though most governments take over 50% of what we earn. They claim we get services that we need for our hard-earned money, even though we could buy the same services at half the price from the private sector.
Today, we ridicule the slave-owners' claim that they "gave back" to their slaves by housing, clothing, feeding them, and bestowing upon them the "benefits" of civilization instead of leaving them in their native state. We see this as a self-serving justification for exploitation.
In the future, we will view being forcibly taxed to pay for things we don't want, such as bombs for the Middle East, subsidies for tobacco, other people's abortions, regulations that put small businesses out of business, prisons for people trying to feel good, keeping life-saving medications out of the hands of dying people, etc., as taking away our freedom.
When even a small portion of our lives is spent enslaved, that part tends to dominate the rest of our time. If we don't put our servitude first as we structure the remainder of our lives, our masters will make sure we regret it.
How much freedom do we need to survive and how much do we need to thrive?
- Mary J. Ruwart
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I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.
— Friedrich Hayek
To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today.
We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties.
One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names: Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.
- Ron Paul
Why Government Spending Is Driving Up Interest Rates
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The desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
— Friedrich Hayek
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.
- Frédéric Bastiat
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
- Stanley Milgram
Those in power often assume that in their authority lies superior wisdom and thus the right to impose their beliefs on others.
- Friedrich Hayek
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
- Alan Watts
Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they've met themselves. This is the heart of clarity.
Matt Kahn
By fostering division and envy, the state diverts attention from its own parasitism and becomes the arbiter of disputes it creates.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means a new form of servitude.
— Friedrich Hayek
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Remember to poop before midnight
tonight.
You don't want to be carrying the same shit into the next year.