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Jeff Mockensturm's avatar

"Capitalism sucks!" to young people who've never participated in the productive economy, and aged-out hippies who lived a life avoiding productive work. And yet every day, 230 million Americans get out of bed and go to work, generally happy with their productive vocation. It's not a "white grievance" to think one SHOULD have a vocation, work, while 100 million Americans sit on the sidelines and let the overweening government pay them not to. We have around 17 million Americans age 25-54 not working and not looking for work, by choice. This is rent-seeking behavior as well.

Capitalism hasn't failed when you pay people not to work - or when you enshackle business with regulations and cronyism. It fails because the government gets "involved.

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Sean Delabananas's avatar

Another excellent article. (I particularly liked the nirvana fallacy example). Of late, as objections rise in my mind while reading your blog, you answer them in the next sentence, in this case, where Dutton uses the law and government to his own ends.

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