Cafe Hayek: It Takes a Tough Man to Make a Tender Chicken
John Pertz
· 4 years ago
Great post, there is no greater counterintuitive proposition than the fact that the market enhances the public good while government tears it to pieces pitting everyone against each other through the context of interest group politics.
Gabriel Mihalache
· 4 years ago
I live in Romania and most of your thoughts are right-on. Unfortunatelly, many people have the "eat your cake and still have it" attitude, i.e. they want everything the western mode of production and law has to offer but would still pay lip-service to the same "ideals" of Socialism, much like the people who made that rhetorically comment.
50 years of communism didn't turn the population of central and eastern europe into die hard capitalists... not a bit. This very much illustrated the points Hayek made about reason, world-views and morality.
Many people, here and I suppose everywhere else, want the fruits of private property but without private property, they want the fruits of free market but without free markets, they want freedom in their bedroom but not in the bedroom of people next door. They are unwilling to pay the price, if they must see it as a price.
... and I'm all out of idea!!!
Chris Meisenzahl
· 4 years ago
Great stuff Gabriel. As it's been said by Walter Williams and others, you don;t get rich doing what you want, you get rich my giving others what they want and making them happy. And we're all better off for it.
dmb
· 4 years ago
The paragraph of the Pepsi commercial reminded me of an article by Charles Paul Freund in Reason magazine called In Praise of Vulgarity, which makes the point that the commercial culture despised by "social critics" is actually beneficial and liberating.
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Great post, there is no greater counterintuitive proposition than the fact that the market enhances the public good while government tears it to pieces pitting everyone against each other through the context of interest group politics.
I live in Romania and most of your thoughts are right-on. Unfortunatelly, many people have the "eat your cake and still have it" attitude, i.e. they want everything the western mode of production and law has to offer but would still pay lip-service to the same "ideals" of Socialism, much like the people who made that rhetorically comment.
50 years of communism didn't turn the population of central and eastern europe into die hard capitalists... not a bit. This very much illustrated the points Hayek made about reason, world-views and morality.
Many people, here and I suppose everywhere else, want the fruits of private property but without private property, they want the fruits of free market but without free markets, they want freedom in their bedroom but not in the bedroom of people next door. They are unwilling to pay the price, if they must see it as a price.
... and I'm all out of idea!!!
Great stuff Gabriel. As it's been said by Walter Williams and others, you don;t get rich doing what you want, you get rich my giving others what they want and making them happy. And we're all better off for it.
The paragraph of the Pepsi commercial reminded me of an article by Charles Paul Freund in Reason magazine called In Praise of Vulgarity, which makes the point that the commercial culture despised by "social critics" is actually beneficial and liberating.