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The planned economy was all the rage in 1937, when Prentice-Hall published a 1,000-page tome on The Planned Society: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: A Symposium by Thirty-Five Economists, Sociologists, and Statesmen. The “question that confronts us today is not if we shall plan, but how we shall plan,” wrote Lewis Mumford in the Foreword. All the contributors Keynesian, socialist, communist, and fascist agreed with that point, including such luminaries as Sidney Hook, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. But the book was honest. It linked Stalin and Keynes, fascism and the New Deal. The plans were not identical, of course, but all agreed on government … Continue reading →
give three things in this that you think you pull out and say this was radical thinking at the time and is still radical thinking because nobody is teaching it. in terms of freedom versus the planned society. he has the whole chapter called why the worst get on top. we systems like these that promise to plan everything down to the last detail for you attract demogogues and worse. why? they are based on making promises that can t in the long run be fulfill. like healthcare will actually save us money. exactly. or what we had in the united states where we have $100 trillion of unfunded likes in terms of social security and medicare for the future which makes river household of four in the hoc another $1.3 million. we have the age of the negative millionaire we have now entered. a normal person doesn t make promises like that. a normal person thinks about the future.
give three things in this that you think you pull out and say this was radical thinking at the time and is still radical thinking because nobody is teaching it. in terms of freedom versus the planned society. he has the whole chapter called why the worst get on top. we systems like these that promise to plan everything down to the last detail for you attract demogogues and worse. why? they are based on making promises that can t in the long run be fulfill. like healthcare will actually save us money. exactly. or what we had in the united states where we have $100 trillion of unfunded likes in terms of social security and medicare for the future which makes river household of four in the hoc another $1.3 million. we have the age of the negative millionaire we have now entered. a normal person doesn t make promises like that. a normal person thinks about the future.
was radical thinking at the time and it s still rid call thinking because no one is teaching it. freedom versus the planned society. he has a chapter why the worst get on top. why systems like these that promise to plan things to the last detail attract demagogues and worse. why? for one thing, they are based on making promises that can t in the long run be fulfilled. glenn: like healthcare will actually save us money. exactly. or what we had in the united states where we have $100 trillion of unfunded liabilities in terms of social security and medicare for the future, which makes every household of four in the hock on top of their existing taxes. another $1.3 million. the age of the negative millionaire we have entered. normal people don t make promises like that. they think about the future. the people in charge of the system ruined the lives of