Hayek Proved That Collectivism Cannot Provide Security
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Freedom in the free-market is security, or self-reliance, in America. But, again, why not have, as collectivists demand, the security of employment, housing, or similar important needs in life? These are certainly important needs in life, and the collectivist governance always promotes the guarantee of these needs. They lay out a plan so that these needs are
secured for the citizenry by the collective governance.
Because it is
impossible to secure these needs without destroying liberty.
Economist Friedrich Hayek provides insight into both of these failures:
[T]he more we try to provide security by interfering with the market system, the greater the insecurity becomes; and , what is worse, the greater becomes the contrast between security of those to whom it is granted as a privilege and the ever increasing insecurity of the underprivileged. And the more security becomes a privileg
Apathy And Envy For All
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Under a collective system, everyone degrades to a lower level whether they want to or not. Apathy, laziness, fear, and dependence become the norm, making central planning and totalitarian measures even more successful; thus the end of poverty, but the state of destitution also becomes the end – the lowest common denominator is achieved (See
How Collectivism Destroys Everyone). This highlights Reverend William J. H. Boetcker’s wisdom that:
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
How Collectivism Destroys Everyone
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Collectivism coercively takes property from persons of higher levels of wealth and redistributes it to those of lower levels of wealth. This practice
must also exercise some level of totalitarian force as a central authority must decide how much to take and who receives it – otherwise the collectivist system cannot function. So, the first societal degradation is that, by design, some level of a central authority exercises totalitarian force. But a second societal degradation is that nearly all incentive is removed from individuals to excel, develop, and risk ideas which benefit themselves and society. This phenomenon creates a downward spiral of society to reach the lowest common denominator of individuals. If people are forced into being