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Ludwig Von Mises

  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    The people of the United States are more prosperous than the inhabitants of all other countries because their government embarked later than the governments in other parts of the world upon the policy of obstructing business
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Capitalism deproletarianizes the "common man" and elevates him to the rank of a "bourgeois."
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    On the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Those shops and plants which cater exclusively or predominantly to the wealthier citizens' demand for refined luxuries play merely a subordinate role in the economic setting of the market economy. They never attain the size of big business. Big business always serves—directly or indirectly—the masses.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    The profit system makes those men prosper who have succeeded in filling the wants of the people in the best possible and cheapest way. Wealth can be acquired only by serving the consumers. The capitalists lose their funds as soon as they fail to invest them in those lines in which they satisfy best the demands of the public.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Every adult is free to fashion his life according to his own plans. He is not forced to live according to the plan of a planning authority enforcing its unique plan by the police, i.e., the social apparatus of compulsion and coercion. What restricts the individual's freedom is not other people's violence or threat of violence, but the physiological structure of his body and the inescapable nature-given scarcity of the factors of production
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    would be idle to lament this insatiable appetite for more and more goods. This lust is precisely the impulse which leads man on the way toward economic betterment. To content oneself with what one has already got or can easily get, and to abstain apathetically from any attempts to improve one's own material conditions, is not a virtue.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Man's most characteristic mark is that he never ceases in endeavors to advance his well-being by purposive activity.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and the better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
  • Olaoluwa Adejumohar citeretfor 2 år siden
    It is quite customary to liken the entrepreneurs and capitalists of the market economy to the aristocrats of a status society.
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