Rcmcdonald (@findtheapex)

"Economic growth can only happen when people are allowed to make voluntary exchanges with each other. In the Parable of the Broken Window as told by Bastiat and Hazlitt, the townsfolk were eager to find something good in a bad situation, but were looking in the wrong places. Involuntary destruction is always bad for an economy, and further distortions like taxes and monetary inflation exacerbate the problem. The best response to broken windows is to just let people work things out voluntarily. If any more force should be applied after a vandal breaks a window, it should be used to make the vandal pay for fixing the destruction. " https://medium.com/jonathan-newman/the-broken-window-fallacy-broken-down-8165c6490dd