Justice Quote by Don Watkins

“Our life is our responsibility, and if we want something from other people, justice requires that we earn it through voluntary exchange. The bare fact that we want or need something from other people doesn’t give us a right to it. Other people are not our servants, and their job isn’t to spend…” quote by Don Watkins — Download Open image

““Our life is our responsibility, and if we want something from other people, justice requires that we earn it through voluntary exchange. The bare fact that we want or need something from other people doesn’t give us a right to it. Other people are not our servants, and their job isn’t to spend their days and hours working for our benefit rather than their own.””

Don Watkins

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“One result of the federal government’s student financial aid programs is higher tuition costs at our nation’s colleges and universities.” Although paradoxical, this result could have been predicted from basic economic theory: when students can come up with more money for college, thanks to the government’s efforts, colleges can afford to increase their tuition. “The empirical evidence is consistent with…

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“That’s what happened at Ford, for example. In 1914, Henry Ford famously raised his starting wage to $5 a day (nearly $120 in today’s dollars). He had to: turnover at Ford in 1913 had been 370 percent.37 In order to find and keep the workers who were assembling his increasingly profitable cars, Ford had to be willing to outbid his…

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“Some economic inequality critics go further and contend that there comes a point at which inequality undermines progress—and, by and large, they believe the United States has reached that point today. What do they base that conclusion on? There is no theoretical reason why differences in income or wealth should slow human progress. The notion that “spending drives the economy”…

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“Today, more and more of the world is following our lead, with the result that billions around the globe have been liberated from poverty in recent decades: since 1981, the fraction of the earth’s population living on less than a dollar a day has dropped from over 40 percent to only 14 percent.23 This is an incredible achievement. Yet most…

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