On the Worst—and Best—Rising to the Top Apr 10, 2018
When initiated coercion is legalized, it attracts those who are willing to use it.* Those who are more willing to use legalized, initiated coercion than those who are hesitant will advance faster in the system. Eventually, the more willing rise to the top. The more willing, then, use the initiated coercion against those they have bypassed and anyone else who gets in their way. This in essence, though not his words, is the identification made by F. A. Hayek in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom (chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top”). The identification explains how and...
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