Fighting the Liberty Fighters

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." — Milton Friedman

To be against the free market requires several huge leaps of non-faith.

To be against the free market one has to believe that people are not the best shepherds of their own fate, that some anointed individual in a distant piece of earth has a better idea, or even the first thought of a more constructive use for another person's resources.

To be against the free market means to oppose a person's freedom to pursue and to benefit from the fruits of his labor. The opposers are not freedom fighters. They are bondage fighters who want to see everyone shackled by a yoke of declining productivity.

To be against the free market is to deny human nature.  It is to adopt a shallow understanding of economics (hello Keynesians) and to ignore the obvious truths in it.

Those against the free market have little or no understanding of the nature of human dignity, drive, and desire.  People with no incentive to produce anything of value produce nothing of value.

The defining principle of the contra-free-market crowd is to disincentivise production. They do this by attempting to convince enough people that they have a right to someone else's lunch. And that it is somehow morally acceptable for people to think this way. It is a dibilitating lie.

And, like clockwork, every four years, we gather in the precinct rooms to prove that at least half the populace believe this lie.

Any surviving ethic will have to be consistent with human nature. So, from here, I believe the best personal strategy is to invest in the things that are in line with basic human nature. We want to be free to pursue happiness. We want everybody to have the same opportunity, to share and celebrate that freedom.


Ultimately, there can be no personal freedom without economic freedom. Economic freedom is not something government can give you. it is something you have to protect for yourself.


To my readers: Invest in freedom. Embrace those things that both harness and nurture the human spirit. Do not invest in any person, place, or thing that denies the human spirit. Protect the free market and protect freedom.