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Business saw how well this strategy worked for police in the 1960s: if you want our help, you must make us unaccountable. Never mind the fact that then the hel
by FrankWilhoit 2y ago
Business saw how well this strategy worked for police in the 1960s: if you want our help, you must make us unaccountable. Never mind the fact that then the help is no longer worth anything.
By Gresham's Law of ideas, the concept of freedom has become a euphemism for unaccountability. The only freedom that anyone today understands is freedom from the rule of law.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Business saw how well this strategy worked for police in the 1960s: if you want our help, you must make us unaccountable This only works with natural monopoly. Business wants a monopoly isn’t exactly groundbreaking. > By Gresham's Law of ideas, the concept of freedom has become a euphemism for unaccountability “Gresham's Law of ideas” doesn’t make sense; ideas don’t have nominal value. Even if they did, your usage doesn’t work unless we conflate bad with popular, at which point the entire argument boils down to that which is popular is bad because it’s popular, which is freshman dorm room tautology.