"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Enron, Ten Years Later
"The company went bankrupt, its owners lost all of their equity, and several of the company’s officers went to jail once the discipline of the market revealed their unethical activities. The Enron case shows that the market mechanism works well to punish those who behave unethically. Government regulation is not needed, and in this case, regulations were in place and did not work."
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The foremost big-government regulation(1) of the agricultural city-State (civilization) is a Land enTITLEment program that restricts the free movement of Non-State society families to gambol about plain and forest(2) to forage (gather and hunt) as sovereign individuals.(3)
Who wants Gambol Lockdown deregulation?
Certainly not the Mises-Marx axis of agricultural city-Statists.
Officer, am I free to gambol about plain and forest?
MARX: NO!
MISES: NO!
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(1) "Agriculture creates government." ~Richard Manning, Against the Grain, p.73
(2) "Gamboling about plain and forest, hunting and living off the land is fun. Farming is not." ~Richard Manning, Against the Grain, p.24
(3) "Historically, people in non-state societies are relatively autonomous and sovereign. They generate their own subsistence with little or no assistance from outside sources. They bow to no external political leaders. Nor are they routinely exploited by outsiders." ~Elman Service, NON-STATE AND STATE SOCIETIES, http://faculty.smu.edu/rkemper/cf_3333/Non_State_and_State_Societies.pdf