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Originally Posted by Ret10Echo
Just listened to a discussion on Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" given by Lawrence H. White Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
Unfortunately Hillsdale College that hosted it only made it available on THAT video platform.
Love the historical context and the laydown noting that Hayek wrote the book back in the 1940's using the Soviets, National Socialists and Fascist Italy as the examples.
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Hillsdale College does share a decent amount of interesting materials.
It seems that mob rule inevitably results in central planners, often a tyrannical elite, imposing policies on the masses. The central planners creation is often equal misery for all but the elite.
The masses tend to forget that BIG.Gov feeds itself and the elites first...and the masses always get the leftovers.