03-12-2019, 07:39 AM
(03-12-2019, 05:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Do things go back to that? Maybe. A 4T is not the sort of time in which an Enron or Madoff scam is possible. There is no easy money. Government can spend big on relief efforts and the restoration (or improvement!) of infrastructure, but that must have an obvious payoff. There's nothing glamorous about starting a diner that offers cheap, bland fare in which Mom and Pop open for breakfast, kids come home from school to prepare food and do dishes in time for the dinner customers, and the business closes just around bedtime for small children. That may be all that is available when the corporate giants left over from better times aren't hiring.
If that isn't good enough for you, then contemplate the horror of fascism, which has nothing to offer but suffering and death after it destroys your soul as it destroys scapegoats. Or Bolshevism which gives you nothing but the barest needs (from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs -- heck, a plantation owner got from his field hands that he literally owned and made sure that his slaves did not starve if they worked as demanded and never demanded human dignity) while a bureaucratic elite exploits the masses as severely as is possible even if the State owns everything and decides everything. Or maybe some religious hierarchy that saves your soul by destroying such freedom as you thought God-given.
Or maybe we could just turn to centrist liberalism, raising positive liberty by emphasising the values of autonomy and empowerment. See Attachment
