[ExI] readers digest version of hayek

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:13 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> 14.  Your profession is planned (unclear how that will be, open to
> suggestion.)
>

Doesn't look like a logical consequence of our current situation.  Given
that this would be the next step from where we are, by your analogy, that
seems like it breaks your analogy.


> 15.  Your wages are planned (by limiting excessive salaries for instance,
> and raising minimum wages, especially for union members.)
>

Good luck with that, at least for executive pay.  Unless the limits would
just be for the rank and file - which is already the case.  (Go on, just
try justifying a $200,000/year salary for almost any technical job at any
major company.  Then try justifying it for a senior executive job.)


> 16.  Your thinking is planned, with posters, radio, press, all telling you
> the same lies (sound familiar?)
>

Again, only for people who don't know to find alternate points of view.
Sadly, this is already most people.


> 17.  Your recreation is planned (by for instance closing National Parks.)
>

...not even close to comparable.  National parks closed?  There are other
places to camp.

18.  Your disciplining is planned (for you can be called in by the IRS for
> any reason which they do not disclose, and are given a trial which is not
> public.
>

Unfortunately, they can't do that on a mass scale.  They can only crack
down on a (very) small percent of the populace at a time.  This supposes
that they could do it to most people.  They'd need a much larger ruling
class to be able to do that.
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