Introduction to the Claims

Under construction

Freedom is a Good Thing

(Freedom for you is constraint for someone else. Illustrate with the Bill of Rights.)

Freedom is the Best Thing

This is a Free Country.

(This claim refers to part of the picture. Ways in which we are less free than other nations. Ways in which this is good.)

Regulations are Written by Power-hungry Petty Tyrants

()

Regulation Impedes Progress and Diminishes Productivity

(Counterexamples in which regulation has the opposite effect.)

There Is Too Much Regulation

(Wouldn't you have to know how much there is and how much there should be?)

Government is Organized Violence

Economic Inequality and Performance

(Sources of income inequality. Does income inequality promote economic productivity?)

What's Good for GM

(The idea that profitability of businesses promotes overall welfare.)

Capitalism is the Best System

(How capitalism works to concentrate wealth. Capitalism is a natural result of markets. Coping with the problems of capitalism. The existence of multiple options within "capitalism." Perversions of capitalism. Intellectual property rights and their huge costs. Whose assets are made worthless by "creative destruction?")

Capitalism Promotes Freedom

Whose freedom does it promote to do what?

Capitalism is Responsible for what We Have

(To what extent this is or isn't true.)

Free Markets

(The purported advantages and the real drawbacks.)

Free Markets Promote General Freedom

(??)

Free Markets Create Fair Outcomes

(Businesses control the uses for and value of labor. The incentive to deskill and commoditize labor. Substitution of capital for labor. Financing skill acquisition and exploiting labor skills.)

Competition Drives Productivity

(Real competitive strategy prefers competition on more-defensible bases. Intellectual property, market domination, etc. Examples such as Amazon, Facebook, and MicroSoft)

Competition Rewards the Best Producers

(Innate advantages. Huge mismatches between effort, risk, etc. and reward.)

Competition Provides Healthy Incentives

(Are such incentives desirable? What does competition really incentivize for?)

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