Ludwig von Mises sat down in 1920 and published a paper that ended the intellectual case for socialism, even if the socialists took another seven decades to notice.
The argument was precise. Mises showed that without private ownership of the means of production, there are no real prices for capital goods. Without prices, you cannot calculate profit and loss. Without profit and loss, economic planners have no way of knowing whether they are creating value or destroying it. They are flying blind, spending real resources with no feedback mechanism telling them whether the factory, the railway, or the grain depot was worth building. Every allocation becomes a guess dressed up as a decree.
This, he called the Socialist Calculation Problem, and nobody answered it. Oskar Lange tried in 1936, proposing that socialist planners could simulate prices by trial and error. Mises read this and was unimpressed (charitably put). Lange assumed you could reproduce the function of market prices without the institution that generates them: private property, genuine exchange, real skin in the game. You cannot fake the signal and expect accurate information.
The Soviet Union spent seventy years proving Mises right. Chronic shortages, misallocated steel, surplus winter boots in Georgia in July, famine engineered by committees convinced they understood grain supply better than the price system. The USSR collapsed in 1991 under the weight of precisely the inefficiencies Mises predicted in Vienna in 1920.
You are watching this play out again today, every time a government sets energy prices, rent ceilings, or pharmaceutical price caps, and then expresses shock at the resulting shortages. The calculation problem did not expire with the Soviet Union. Bureaucrats who override price signals recreate the same blindness Mises identified. Mises told you exactly what would happen.
A Muslim woman explains what Muslims receive in heaven:
“Allah will reward men with 72 virgins. But women will be forever young and beautiful.
We’ll live in gold palaces. Allah will give us silk clothes, diamonds, and slaves to serve us for eternity.”
I’ve never seen a more materialistic and carnal religion.
"No hay diferencia entre comunismo y socialismo, excepto en la manera de conseguir el mismo objetivo final: el comunismo propone esclavizar al hombre mediante la fuerza, el socialismo mediante el voto. Es la misma diferencia que hay entre asesinato y suicidio".
- Ayn Rand-
“La primera lección de la economía es la escasez: nunca hay suficiente de algo para satisfacer a todos. La primera lección de la política es ignorar la primera lección de la economía”
Thomas Sowell
‼️PURA BOSTA FÉTIDA ISLÁMICA,INVADIENDO LUGARES Y PLAZAS QUE PERTENECEN SÓLO,A CHILENOS‼️🤬
¿QUÉ HACEN EN CHILE,ESAS ESCORIAS CON SUS RITUALES ANTEDILUVIANOS?
SR. KAST. ¿UD. NO SABÍA ÉSTO??
¿O SE ENTERÓ,POR LA PRENSA??
@davidsantosvlog De Marruecos le llega su torta. Al final las democracias no tienen futuro con los jeques y los reyes. Que compran a los políticos occidentales.
⭕️ÚLTIMA HORA| Pedro Sánchez inicia una guerra diplomática con Giorgia Meloni y activa los controles fronterizos con Italia.
Tan manso con Marruecos y tan valiente con Italia.
¿Qué le debe Pedro Sánchez a Marruecos?
3 jueces en el TC estuvieron a favor de deponerme del cargo de diputado, aun cuando ya no lo detento, lo que ofende la lógica legal más básica. Uno de ellos, si mal no recuerdo, votó en contra de deponer a la senadora Allende por el caso de la compra de la casa del mismo nombre, a pesar de que no estaba controvertida la falta cometida. La politización extrema de ciertos magistrados en el TC es un peligro para la misma constitución que estos debiesen aplicar.