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Another Reason Why Individual Freedom Is So Much Better than Central Planning

February 22, 2024

Much of the developed world is slipping into a hyperregulated malaise. Growth rates are down across most major economies, and the developing countries are catching up to our errors almost as fast as they are growing. Increasingly, even in the US you would have to be outside the norm to afford a house by age forty. The median age of a first-time homebuyer in 2023 is the same as a repeat buyer in 1981. We’re not allowed to build and grow, but we’re told everything is ok as long as the stock market hasn’t crashed. When we point out the system isn’t working, we are told we should be happy because degrowth is good for the environment.
It is time people stopped feeling obligated to justify their existence to a managerial class of unelected bureaucrats. Their

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Back to the Future Morphs into Dystopia

November 2, 2023

Thanks to the exponential growth of government and regulation, the optimistic society of Back to the Future is fast becoming the dystopian world of Escape from New York or Death Wish.
Original Article: Back to the Future Morphs into Dystopia

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