The road to serfdom...
Well... Air Conditioning is nice.
Electric washing machines were a new wonder? There were washing machines long before the electric ones came out. They were made by Maytag and were gasoline engine driven. I have an antique Maytag two cylinder engine. My dad had several.
But, back to the point of the article, you still had to buy gasoline to run the things.
We can’t escape paying for electricity in today’s world, and other little goodies like food. But we can become more self reliant, independent and above all learn to separate needs and wants when spending our money.
“because we gotta work more to pay for all this stuff.”
Let’s get real, it may be true for gadgets (like TV sets or patio heaters) but it’s terribly false for most things.
A washing machine and a dishwasher would spare me at least 10 hours per month. Given the cost of labour, they pay for themselves in a month. And electricity, compared to labour cost, is ‘too cheap to meter’. Labor cost is also why we scrap everything and repair nothing now.
“Taxing a person’s labor is both immoral and detrimental to a nation’s aggregate wealth.”
I have always wondered how they could tax it myself. After all, it certainly is not a profit but an equal exchange. Of course, property taxes certainly do not make sense, especially when based on value and not public service need.
Hopefully the indoctrinators were not successful.
Speaking of cowboys, western writer Louis L’Amour frequently has one of his main characters opine that what brought about the fall of the Native Americans was not the soldier, or the cowboy, or the pioneer, but the traders that sold them rifles. Once they found out how efficient they were, for hunting and for warring, they had to have them. They then grew dependent on them and on the ammunition which they could only get from traders. As a result of this, their whole way of life was changed forcing them gradually into the ways of those who eventually supplanted them.