1266. The Second Reason Socialism is The Anti-Agency By Gary C. Lawrence, in Meridian Magazine -- very interesting!
The Second Reason Socialism is The Anti-Agency By Gary C. Lawrence · August 23, 2020 The first reason, as discussed last time , is excessive government control – control, if not outright ownership, of the means of production; a centrally planned economy; and wage and price controls. By their very natures, all diminish individual choice and freedom. The second reason, out of the seven we will discuss in coming weeks, has to do with wealth. Socialism’s goal is a more equal distribution of wealth. I submit such efforts stifle the incentive to work and run counter to agency as a commandment to act and do. Socialists suppose wealth to be a self-existing and finite commodity. So for someone to have more means others have less. What could be more fair, the thinking goes, than to make sure everyone has an equal slice of that miraculous pie and no one goes hungry? Oh, the things that go wrong. More taxes, more regulations, more control undermi