I asked what series of videos I should make next on both YouTube and here yesterday.
These were the results, with there being many more votes on YouTube than here:
The preference was clear and surprisingly consistent.
Myths it is then, but I have also noted requests for comments, and maybe even shorter series, on growth, the household analogy and maybe a new social charter.
Right now, the outline myths series has about eighteen topics in it. That, however, may change.
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I was wondering recently about what happens after a council “goes bust”? Who are the administrators, what happens to the councillors?
Government administrators are appointed but councillors can still make descions within the limits they set, which is fairly meaingless.
Relevant and accurate.
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1 Milton Friedman didn’t just destroy public education. He rewired how Americans think about everything from housing to health to patriotism.
2 He sold the idea that government is the problem. That markets are always right. That the public good is just inefficiency in disguise.
3 Once that poison spread, everything became a transaction. A hospital visit. A college degree. Even drinking water.
4 Friedman taught America that there’s no such thing as society. Only individuals and their contracts. It was Thatcher before Thatcher.
5 Public housing? “Distorts the market.” Public transit? “Let the users pay.” Universal healthcare? “Leads to socialism.”
6 He didn’t believe in rights. He believed in price tags. And the more he won, the more the soul of the country receded.
7 Education became a “school choice.” Work became a “gig.” Citizenship became conditional, based on credit scores and productivity.
8 Friedmanism turned Americans against each other. If someone else gets help, you lose. If someone else succeeds, you’re cheated.
9 The American Dream was once about common ascent. Now it’s a zero-sum bloodsport. That was his doing.
10 He didn’t just attack the New Deal. He unstitched the social contract. And now we call that freedom. (11/13)But freedom without solidarity is just isolation. And markets without morality are just war by other means.
11 Milton Friedman didn’t save capitalism. He made it cannibalistic. And America’s still choking on the bones.
Very useful
Thank you