David Edward Garber (@DaveGarber1975)

Every person has the same equal God-given (or natural) rights, including rights over our respective persons and properties and children, as well as to engage in either contract or defense. Because we each have these rights, it's proper for us to enjoy genuinely-free markets in which we are each entitled to enjoy the fruits of our own (but not others') respective labors, and in which we may freely exchange those fruits with each other in mutually-beneficial ways. Such freedom allows (if not encourages) innovation toward increasing efficiency and effectiveness, along with proper customization, raising average standards-of-living while allowing ever-more income beyond subsistence for worthwhile causes like helping the poor. But there's no guarantee that free people will freely choose to help the poor rather than to enrich themselves, which allows false excuses for Marxists to promote alternative systems like socialism that promise both to end greed and to establish economic equality---but, in reality, these systems always fail to achieve such ends, but instead delude people into surrendering their rightful liberty to conspiring oligarchs who almost invariably adopt all of the evils that they promised to end, and who change the path-to-wealth from providing valued products-and-services to being cunning predators, all of which yields pervasive stagnation, inefficiency, ineffectiveness, improper customization, and even economic regress. Good ends don't justify evil means (like slavery and/or plunder), even if such practices are both popular and legal, and evil means don't truly achieve good ends, anyway, but (in my observation) evil methods tend to yield results that are either mixed or ineffective at best if not entirely counterproductive at worst. If we truly want to help the poor better, then we should seek not state control but self-control by helping others to freely change their hearts-and-minds for the better so that they will freely choose to do well on their own, rather than be forced into hypocrisy. We may never persuade everyone, but we can persuade enough---and yield fruits not of entitlement-and-resentment but of gratitude-and-generosity. This StosselTV episode admits that, in a capitalist society, people may choose to be greedy, but that such detriments are far outweighed by benefits, which result from mutually-beneficial exchanges that create wealth for everyone, even if some more than others, and allow our civilization to advance. https://rumble.com/v79qaq4-the-case-for-capitalism-voluntary-trade-rising-wealth-and-why-socialism-alw.html #Economics #Socialism #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Progress #Civilization