There is no sense living in a free country without prosperity. Think Klaus Schwab of the global elites, “You will own nothing but be happy.” How charming.
If we want to own something, we should understand the system that creates prosperity and then protect it. Are you aware that many economists have no idea how prosperity is created? Their fallback position is “it’s complicated.”
No, it is not.
We come from nature, from planet Earth. Understanding nature gives us a starting point for the mechanics of prosperity. Students of nature have described thousands of systems, but none have ever gotten to nature’s true foundations. Not even AI.
A tenet of the environmental movement is “there is no waste in nature.” The obvious question, then, is if there is no waste, what is the mechanism that drives it out?
Competition drives waste out of nature.
People understand competition and they understand waste. What they don’t understand is that the two are inextricably connected like opposite ends of a seesaw. When competition goes up, waste goes down, and vice versa. Since there is no waste, nature is a perfect competitive system.
The competition/waste connection gets you a long way to understanding the operation of nature but there is a very necessary third fundamental; everything moves to ease.
You can prove this by going to a national park. There, signs read, “Do not feed the animals.” Why? Because if you start feeding the animals, they will stop feeding themselves. Everything moves to ease!
We can apply these three fundamentals of nature to the two great systems unique to humans, the marketplace and government.
We easily see that the marketplace operates essentially like nature. It, too, is a competitive system that eliminates waste. Everything about the marketplace is based on a move to ease. Why trade if it doesn’t make your life easier?
Government, on the other hand, is singular, meaning there can be no competition. No competition means there is no mechanism to eliminate waste. It is a feature of the system. As for a “move to ease,” take a moment and think about government employees…enough said!
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