Saturday, April 26, 2014
Reductio ad Sensum Communem
I tried to write about the latest lefty embracing Marx on economics (via Thomas Piketty), again, but apparently you have to share at least one common tenet with your intellectual adversary in order to rationally discuss the subject matter at hand. It seems Joe Conason and I do not share a belief in even one common thing. Astounding.
So let me just ask this.
Isn't income equality the necessary by-product of freedom? If we are all free and equal before the law, won't some of us work harder, work smarter, and sometimes be more lucky and thereby make more money than others who work less, work stupidly and are unlucky and therefore earn less? This seems an absolutely basic truth to me. Am I missing something?
The cool thing about economic freedom is that through hard, intelligent work, with a little luck, anyone can get to the 1% of earners.
And in America, 20% of the population earn 1% income at least one year of their lives. 1 in 5! How great is that?
I seriously don't get why this sort of freedom is in any way bad.
Apparently you have to be on the left to see freedom as undesirable.
So let me just ask this.
Isn't income equality the necessary by-product of freedom? If we are all free and equal before the law, won't some of us work harder, work smarter, and sometimes be more lucky and thereby make more money than others who work less, work stupidly and are unlucky and therefore earn less? This seems an absolutely basic truth to me. Am I missing something?
The cool thing about economic freedom is that through hard, intelligent work, with a little luck, anyone can get to the 1% of earners.
And in America, 20% of the population earn 1% income at least one year of their lives. 1 in 5! How great is that?
I seriously don't get why this sort of freedom is in any way bad.
Apparently you have to be on the left to see freedom as undesirable.
Labels: Basic Tenet: Economic Freedom is Good; Mark, Thomas Piketty; Joe Conason
