{"id":14900,"date":"2021-05-05T01:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2021-05-05T01:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:44:43","slug":"principled-life-regulated-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/principled-life-regulated-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Principled Life. Regulated Death."},"content":{"rendered":"

To me, economics is the study of how to best manage human covetousness so that the least amount of harm is allowed to be perpetrated. Of course, it is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses and emphasizes the importance of realizing that there are no “solutions” in this world, only tradeoffs. The first rule of politics is then, of course, to ignore what economists say, because what economists say is usually not politically useful for politicians. Time is not on my side, since there are many other subjects such as genetics and quantum computing I would also like to delve into, and I am not getting any younger. Videos produced by, for, and because of the more erudite amongst us are a great way of getting the gist of the great body of work already done by experts in their respective fields. What prompted this post is a video from the three-part series, three parts as far as I can tell, called “Testing Milton Friedman” from the “Free To Choose” network, sub-headed “Government Control<\/a><\/strong><\/span>“, embedded here.<\/span><\/p>\n