tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404820640426099135.post1764546284293801112..comments2023-10-31T00:46:35.316+13:00Comments on Anti-Dismal: Remembering Milton FriedmanPaul Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13731003529546075700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404820640426099135.post-42105646754025135102012-04-29T19:14:51.460+12:002012-04-29T19:14:51.460+12:00There may be a self-selection problem: the people ...There may be a self-selection problem: the people who want power are the very people you don't want having it.Paul Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13731003529546075700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404820640426099135.post-12270093504859695942012-04-29T19:06:17.414+12:002012-04-29T19:06:17.414+12:00Yes I like number one too. Many times I have refle...Yes I like number one too. Many times I have reflected on this - most recently with the Maritime Union and the Ports of Auckland issue. I've noticed that unions and churches (both the type of organisation that purports to be a force for the good) attract some really ugly people to the upper echelons of their hierarchies.dragonflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404820640426099135.post-65918484155077978272012-04-29T15:02:51.217+12:002012-04-29T15:02:51.217+12:00From the Introduction to "Capitalism and Free...From the Introduction to "Capitalism and Freedom"<br /><br />"The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp."<br /><br />See also point 1.Paul Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13731003529546075700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404820640426099135.post-62584713381698040342012-04-29T14:39:47.263+12:002012-04-29T14:39:47.263+12:00Number 5 is pretty good.Number 5 is pretty good.dragonflynoreply@blogger.com