Modern cities are the center of corruption, socialism and ill-fated "central planning" of people's lives, great and small. Big, central cities allow for easier government control compared to decentralized, displaced suburban and rural populations. They're a total disaster compared to the alternative of a free market city. Gun control? City governments providing clean water? You mean with all that flouride?
Some triumph. Another statist Harvard goon.
This guy sounds like he's laying the intellectual groundwork for a political push for further centralization and more government city-building policies, a la the China miracle.
This fool reminds us that throughout civilization, cities have been the incubator of ideas, as new ideas required the face-to-face interaction that a city provides. That was true until modern technology made it possible for mankind to communicate instantaneously with nearly anyone (and everyone) else in the world at light speed.
I don't think I would call him a statist. He does say that policies shouldn't support building infrastructure in non-urban areas. And he does criticize the home owning fetish. I don't like his non-gun owning theory.
Haven't read the book, but he doesn't call for state intervention anywhere here. Despite the fluoride in the water, water is much cleaner than it has been in history. I grew up on a farm in Kansas and that was some very heavy water coming out of our well.
Modern cities are the center of corruption, socialism and ill-fated "central planning" of people's lives, great and small. Big, central cities allow for easier government control compared to decentralized, displaced suburban and rural populations. They're a total disaster compared to the alternative of a free market city. Gun control? City governments providing clean water? You mean with all that flouride?
ReplyDeleteSome triumph. Another statist Harvard goon.
This guy sounds like he's laying the intellectual groundwork for a political push for further centralization and more government city-building policies, a la the China miracle.
This fool reminds us that throughout civilization, cities have been the incubator of ideas, as new ideas required the face-to-face interaction that a city provides. That was true until modern technology made it possible for mankind to communicate instantaneously with nearly anyone (and everyone) else in the world at light speed.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Bastiat live on a farm?
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would call him a statist. He does say that policies shouldn't support building infrastructure in non-urban areas. And he does criticize the home owning fetish. I don't like his non-gun owning theory.
ReplyDeleteHaven't read the book, but he doesn't call for state intervention anywhere here. Despite the fluoride in the water, water is much cleaner than it has been in history. I grew up on a farm in Kansas and that was some very heavy water coming out of our well.