This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Posted on 05/28/2017 11:16:49 AM PDT by Starman417
He was at the right place at the right time with the right “pet rock”!
UBI...those in charge would dole it out to we lesser intelligent folks...just like the movie “Obsolete” portrays...these tyrants must be kept away from power.
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “you didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.
We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Reminds me of Hollywood stars who make millions per movie. What aren’t the profits equally shared between everyone? Why doesn’t the camera man and the gaffer make as much as the “star”?
They are all hypocrites.
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