Topic Of The Week
For this week, we read a section of The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek. It focuses on the central planning starting to integrate into the United States and England. The author spent some of his life in Austria as well as the United States and England. He seems to think what happened in Germany is starting to happen here, the losses from freedoms that often resemble slavery, teaching our young kids what to think, and controlling the economy.
What I See
I think he is right especially when you get to the cartoon towards the end of the book. Some of the planning steps seem to be what is being implemented into our society. The government is trying to force us into things. Friedrich mentions about how it starts in schools. I see the same. Maybe not in every classroom, but in some teachers are teaching schoolwork as well as their political beliefs. This is a thing I believe that needs to come to an end. Another thing I found interesting is that the more knowledge people gain, the more they begin to think differently. I think the United States has done a decent job of covering their bases with requiring all children to attend school for so long. If done properly, it gives everyone a sturdy bases to think their own thoughts and be able to stand up for those. I believe we can still have a successful economy without central planning. Let the markets eb and flow. There is always up and downs, but having the government force things to only go up just leads to greater destruction in the long run. I also believe the people of America as well as England would not stand for our government to go completely to central planning. Friedrich talks about how many of these governments get to the point where they are also choosing everyone’s job for them as well as how we would get paid. The jobs would not go over well here. The nice thing is if you get to the point, you hate your job here, you can quit. In a central planning type of government, that would not be possible. You also would not be earning money. I think we get to take that for granted here sometimes. We get paid and can spend it on anything we personally see fit. It would not be this way. The government would gives incentives or rewards for your work not necessarily being money. Overall, I hope it never gets to this, and don’t think it will. But when is it too late for the people of the country to decide that?
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