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Ari Goldberg's avatar

To end monopoly power Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, etc. need to get rid of their socialized medicine. That IS one of the main monopolies. One treatment protocol. One set of marching orders for the doctors. One set of approved drugs and one set of banned drugs. Everyone is allergic to freedom! Libertarianism works! The rule is this: if something can be bought through a free market then that's what should happen. That goes for healthcare, education, housing, welfare and food stamps, scientific research, all the alphabet agencies like FDA, CDC, NIH, NIAID, HHS, DHS, DOE, DOT, FCC, FTC, USDA, etc. We don't need government regulation of anything. That's what courts are for. If someone harms another person with their product, service, behavior, speech, what-have-you, then the legal system should protect them by punishing the offender sufficiently to deter future would-be criminals. Then we wouldn't need all these regulatory bodies. I haven't heard even one person make the argument that the whole Covid nightmare was mainly caused by the government taking powers over economic activities that it is ill-suited to manage without destroying liberty. And people need to realize that their constitutional rights must never be violated, even in an emergency. People are not aware that we don't need government doing the things it's doing. But unfortunately, even if they were, people have been conditioned to be afraid of not having a social safety net of some kind. They don't want to rely on family, relatives, friends, civic groups, and charities if they get in trouble. And they've been brainwashed to think that if everything is privatized the "greedy" capitalists will "exploit" the workers, "price-gouge" the consumers, "speculate" in the stock market, and "waste money" on advertising and marketing. All of those objections are nonsense. Even the enemies of capitalism, like the Trilateral Commission and World Economic Forum admit that capitalism has been responsible for the greatest rise of living standards, wealth creation, longer lifespans, lower infant mortality, more leisure time, human rights, freedom, etc. than any other movement in the history of mankind.

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

Think of it as one more "eliminate the control group" story.

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