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While responding to some push back on my post from yesterday I was reminded of this video from Milton Friedman regarding greed and virtue.
It is a common criticism of capitalism that it is just cold hard profit motives and this is somehow less noble than political self interest. When you say that capitalism lacks virtues and morals you would be correct. But the insinuation made by people that say this is that socialist systems ARE driven by morals and virtues. And for that matter that any government is driven by these values. We might want to believe this but it doesn't stand up to a critical eye.
Do we need morals and ethics? Yeah, for sure. Do we get them from politics? No. No way. These values come from outside of both systems.