It needed 3000 thousand years for western civilization to finally understand that the most wealth and success is reached by limiting government aggression against civil and economic rights of the individual.
We reached the best point in the early 20th century where constitutions and laws were made to facilitate and secure free relationships and trades among free individuals then someone like a snake started telling people that they are oppressed, that they deserve more by providing less and a snowball effect arised till the current state of things.
We have brilliant professionals punished with taxes and thwarted in their everyday life (the part that benefits society included) while a majority of suckers and parasytes are supported for no other reason than breathing.
What people doesnt understand is that the more you punish something the less of it exists while the more you reward something and the more of that will grow...now see it yourself who gets rewarded and who gets punished in our system and see your destination track.
We have plenty of european countries mostly in western Europe where a minority of over taxed and persecuted producers are providing for the majority of the population yet many are surprised while there is no one to take their place once they slowly retire or move abroad.
Fvck knows why I even bother making a post as I can't be bothered to care anymore, but I can't resist. I regret making this post because I don't want to argue, but now I don't want to delete my effort.
Private oligarchy that takes control of government is typically the reason why governments are used aggressively against the rest of the citizens. Concentration of economic power leads to concentration of political power, and vice versa. That's what history has been, not a history of large masses of people democratically deciding to oppress poor little "producers". "Government" is not a monolithic alien.
The share of gdp growth that goes to the lower parts of society has flatlined or been cut back in the recent several decades, not increased. We are seeing wealth inequality get back to the 19th century and before, and it's not because of migration.
The reason why "producers" ie workers are taxed more is to shift taxes off property and finance (especially in particularly corrupt countries like Argentina where the oligarchs simply steal those taxes through financial schemes involving things like debt payments), which have always been the way to get wealthy since ancient history (aside from crime), and on to work and consumption. You can have a country with everyone working. You can't have a country with everyone living off of capital gains (including interest). No idea where you are getting the idea from that most of the population is living off of welfare handouts or whatever.
History and contemporary reality is exactly the opposite of right-libertarian descriptions, which is of course precisely the intention of its ideologues as that portrayal is necessary for their deductive logic to work which in turn makes their economic theory "work". The start of the policies and institutions that gave rise to western civilization was in the Near East, and was with a public system based in the palaces and temples, not privatization and "spontaneous order" from atomistic barter.
If people knew that what they preach is simply the same austerity, privatization, deregulation and regressive taxation of Europe's feudal ages or 19th century but under rebranded slogans and fake logics, they'd be even less popular than already. Mises, Hayek and Friedman are just a trio of con artists peddling the same things that Rome's oligarchy did 2000 years ago, along with hacks like Carl Menger and his fake economic history. We actually got a recent example of their intentions in Europe itself when they sent their economic pupils to the dissolved Soviet Union as "advisors" to help create and justify the Yeltsin kleptocracy there, as elsewhere like the Pinochet dictatorship. The goal is the same as with every other aristocracy in history: privatize banking, infrastructure and real estate to themselves, make themselves tax exempt, and suck out the rest of the population.
But the most tragic thing is that the so-called "left" parties today are just scams. They are not left wing on economic policy at all. It's just a theater. Taxes on work and consumption and policies adopted from the right wing of austerity, privatization, deregulation and regressive taxation are not left wing economic policies. They don't even talk about how banks really work, or the difference between cost and price and what economic rent is, that people like Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, Simon Patten etc. were writing about centuries ago. But nothing is better for the right than having a weak, corrupt, incompetent left. But that is what "representative democracy" is, a corruption which inevitably is corrupt.
"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least, neglect persons of poor or mean conditions... is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." - Adam Smith. Although not the most informative citation as it contains no mention of economic policy, it's a nice note to end this wasted post on.
