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| China 20 years ago | China today |
Compare the China set above with a related photo set from New York, below:
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| New York 20 years ago | New York today |
Yes, that's right. We have a bicycling communist nation emerging into motorized capitalism, followed by a motorized capitalist nation emerging into...well, what exactly? Bicycling environmentalism? Well, while wearing a good set of Maturin glasses (patent unapplied for), it seems fairly obvious what the conclusion to all this might be:
Environmentalism really is Communism
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Although it is worth noting that a truely capitalist society is unlikely to have traffic jams, since extensive queues are a general hallmark of socialism, i.e. insufficient price/cost information. Then again, I take your point, socialists like to stamp out personal freedom (in this case the car) where-ever they find it!
Point noted about traffic jams with private roads - wherever there's a queue you'll usually find socialism lurking somewhere behind the scenes! :-)
Come on Mises.org, get Professor Block's new book out, please, on private roads, as soon as you can? At the current price of over £70 pounds from the first publisher, it's still way beyond my personal utility threshold.
Until Mises manage to smuggle the book out in a reasonably priced form, a good link is this:
PRIVATE ROADS, COMPETITION, AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE AND PRICE CONTROLS
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