My good friend, Kendra, wrote a great article that I finally took the time to read today. She nails a number of points that I would have made myself it it weren't that she is simply a better writer than I.
"One of the irritating things about Klein and her ilk is their hypocritical behaviour. They gain personal wealth because their best-selling books are published and distributed by large multinational businesses (HarperCollins, Costco) and are funded by risk-taking investors.
Similarly, their newspaper columns are funded by advertising revenue from companies. They make their way around the world by buying and using the modern technologies (computers, the internet, Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s) supplied to consumers through globalisation and markets.
They live in political regimes which protect freedom of speech and association. Yet the end result of their ideas, were they to become reality, would be to deny these markets, technologies and ideas to the people of the world." (link to article)
It never ceases to amaze me how prophetic the statists are and their Orwellian double-speak - oh wo are the people who operate under the iron fist of liberal markets and minimal government. Klein and her ilk talk of the doom and gloom of commercialism and free markets and yet so much of what they do and the luxuries they enjoy depend directly upon the largess of a free culture. Klein's absurd notion that Friedman's philosophy can only be enacted through coercion is typical for her peers. There are days when I can't believe we are still fighting against such patent lies.
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