“A strong conviction that SOMETHING must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”— Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
You will notice that according to much political rhetoric the choice is always between “doing nothing” and improving things.
In real life, the choice is between 1) “Doing nothing” (which amounts to more than merely the status quo because it leaves market forces and individual creativity free to do “something” through the drive toward continual improvement).
2) Creating new policies that make things even worse then they are.
3) The most improbable and difficult of the three is “improving things”. Given the unimaginable complexity of an individual human society, and therefore the tremendous knowledge and exactitude necessary for any scheme to positively dictate the course of society on the grand scale, should we believe that unread and uninvestigated policies that are urgently rammed through the United States Congress are likely to improve things or to worsen them?
Doing “Something”
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