Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Our New Name

As I'm sure my older readers have noticed, the name of this blog has been changed to "The Free Market Effect".  This was done to correlate with my new facebook page, which can be found here. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Free-Market-Effect/111179859038601

The Free Market Effect is the effect generated by a truly free market, with minimal government interference.  It is the scientific principle of cause and effect resulting from such a free market, one that has been seen many times over.

The Free Market Effect is an assortment of great things.  Things like low unemployment, better jobs, better quality of life, lower cost of living, greater technologies, and the list goes on.  It even benefits the poorest of the poorest of the poor.  What we call poverty, some places call wealth.  It improves every facet of life.

It works in many ways.  In a free market, citizens are put in charge of their own lives.  This means that they take care of themselves, therefore taking pressures off of the people as a whole.  Obviously, this saves money.  It encourages people to work for better lives.  When everyone works for better lives, social problems dissipate.  It accomplishes many of the goals that socialism hopes for where socialism fails.  Those that want to go the extra mile, put forth the work, investment, and risk that it takes to develop their business have a greater chance of success, which means a greater chance of even more jobs.  When that business does succeed, it can grow unhindered by crippling regulations, creating even more of those benefits.  Charities would benefit greatly, since they are mostly supported by the well to do, and the number of those well to do would greatly increase.

If you're asking why these effects are not occurring, the answer is that we lack a true, free market. In fact, we have created a society where success is frowned upon, and people believe that the answer to social problems is to take more and more from those that have succeeded.  This takes money away from investors that would have otherwise invested that money, which creates better jobs.  As well as this, it discourages entrepreneurs from investing more, because they lose more money.  It's a viscous cycle that can only be stopped by the exclusion of big government from the market.

In fact, what we have is a free market diluted with socialism.  In order to solve the problems created by this socialism, we add more socialism, which creates more problems.  So we try to solve that with more socialism.  It's like drinking water with cyanide, and blaming the water.

The Free Market Effect means a better life for all of us, and with it comes the freedom to live your life as you choose.  But it comes with the responsibility to take care of yourself.  Don't worry about whether or not somebody has more money than you.  If you want more, then better yourself.  Whether that be go to school, go the extra mile at work, or start a small business, or whatever, it's up to you.  And in a free market, you can do it.