Mankind’s Greatest Invention

It reality has two equal parts:  The Free Market and the Division of Labor

One can not exist without the other. If one must make, grow, hunt or fish for everything one requires, there is not call for a Free Market. It follow then that if one can not freely trade what one has made (to another, who desires it), then one will have to make everything one requires for themselves.

But with the Free Market and the Division of Labor and starting within the family unit, expanding out to one’s clan, village, region, country and then the world, mankind has continuity raised its standard of living.

This principle has enabled mankind to build civilization.   With this principle mankind will be able to achieve unbelievable heights and even explore the universe.

The dark side of mankind's history is marked with those who use force and or threat of force to take (from others) what is not theirs.  Robbery, theft, conquest, war or coercion by individuals or a group, even if the group declares its to be a "legitimate government by the people" is the embodiment of evil.

Any use of force or threat of force (to obfuscate) is tantamount to slavery of the victims.  That it is only partial slavery or "part time" slavery makes it no less evil.

Quotes:

"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "
——Milton Friedman

 

"If it's peace on earth to men of good will that we want this season, we must reject the nightmare of savage life, and recommit ourselves to the blessings wrought by private enterprise. The free market, by replacing the state of nature, brings us civilization itself."

——Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

 

"Government, in every society, is the only lawful system of coercion. Taxation is a coerced exchange, and the heavier the burden of taxation on production, the more likely it is that economic growth will falter and decline."

——Murray N. Rothbard

 

"The peaceful market competition of producers and suppliers is a profoundly cooperative process in which everyone benefits, and where everyone's living standard flourishes (compared to what it would be in an unfree society)."

——Murray N. Rothbard

 

"In every economic exchange, each side gains because each side gives up something he values less for something he values more. . . . .So the next time you’re at the grocery store and the cashier says, 'Thank you,' you might respond with, 'And thank you for making my life better by raising my standard of living.' "

——Jacob Hornberger

 

"It has always been the marketplace, not the restrictive and stifling influence of governmental regulation, that has advanced mankind’s material well-being. To preserve our world in state-regulated airtight containers – be they quaint villages or open countrysides – is to consign mankind to the lifeless sterility of a museum. It has been the liberty and spontaneity of people acting in furtherance of their self-interests that provides the "special magic" whose fruits we now enjoy in abundance and at low prices."

——Butler Shaffer

 

"A free market thrives when supplier and consumer are free to communicate with each other, through unfettered pricing and valuation. It works in proportion to the extent it is free from external interference, whether by mafias, governments . . . . . In occupied America, we have not yet been delivered into that Joplinesque freedom of having nothing left to lose. We still think that our government tells the truth, to the extent that if we observe the government lying, we – like abused women at the violent hands of some drunken boyfriend – make excuses. He didn’t really mean it, it was for my own good, he’s really a good man when he isn’t drinking or having a bad day."

——Karen Kwiatkowski

 

"If government (a set of other people) is in the picture, deciding these matters in the place of free individuals, how does it decide? By a clumsy and ineffective voting and logrolling method, by arbitrary exercise of power, and by whim and by interest group. It decides mainly by laws – limiting, seizing, regulating, taxing, redistributing, wasting, absorbing, and destroying property. When it decides for everyone and replaces the free market by its own production of services like defense, its value destruction is amplified. The experiences of every Communist country are testimony to that fact."

——Michael S. Rozeff

 

"No man or group of men — including any group of men calling themselves "the government" — is morally entitled to initiate the use of physical force, the threat of force, or any substitute for force against any other man or group of men."

——Linda Tannehill and Morris Tannehill

 

 

 

 

All quotes from http://www.lewrockwell.com/